Instead of counting left to right, try also counting up and down.

An Easy Approach to Prime Numbers

Harmony along with Melody for Numbers

Steve Hartken
1 min readMay 27, 2021

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Three is greater than two. Right? What if it’s the square root of three? Much smaller. Now, what if most numbers are like that? The number itself has some operation applied, for instance, four, six, and eight. Are four, six, and eight larger than two? Or are they the result of double counting two? Same with ten, fifteen and twenty double counting five.

Unique numbers like two, three and five are prime numbers. It would be really nice to count prime numbers as easy as regular numbers. If we could, complex calculations would be a lot simpler. Just use the prime numbers! Every other number will would already been calculated. This doesn’t help with large numbers either, but also with precision, like high amounts of decimal places.

Natural numbers would became the sequence of prime numbers. Plus one means “next unique number” instead of “one size bigger”. Likely the fundamentals of math would change, adding the exponential properties for example alongside plus, minus, multiply and divide. The amount would take second place to the operations. Numbers would stop being built upon one another in increments, but unique objects with their relation in question.

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