Hacker News Reader

Try 4513 for two divergent lines in the first million and almost complete randomness in the 50th million.

That's a prime number and those diagonals were present for all primes I tried. There's probably a name for that.

There are two non-parallel lines in 4513( and I'm not talking about the two sets of parallel lines crossing each other ). Look carefully, and ignore other parallels. I haven't seen any such clear example in other primes( or any other number for that matter ).

I though it was interesting so here is a picture: http://i.imgur.com/KpbfuSz.jpg

Between the purple and blue lines, there are a couple of segments desperately trying to form a line, but failing.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com