Re: Testable Predictions by HdB

In article <98ea5$4343cba9$82a1e3ad$23594@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Han de Bruijn <Han.deBruijn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Jesse F. Hughes wrote:
....
> > Can you explain how Bertrand's Postulate is ridiculous and what
> > experiments show that it is ridiculous?
>
> There are far more primes between n and 2.n than just one. The fact that
> none of the nowadays theorems on prime numbers reveals this is a pity.

At that time it was difficult to prove. But does the name Ramanujan
ring a bell? He improved considerably on that result. That you do
not know the nowadays theorems on prime numbers is a pity (if we
consider 1919 nowadays). See:
<http://mathworld.wolfram.com/RamanujanPrime.html>.
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