Re: primes : real 1/2 !!



For about 5 glorious minutes, Amy666's post had me believing I had accidentally made a contribution to the R.H. with my proximate-prime polynomial investigation.

However, it only took me 5 minutes to verify that all polynomials with coefficients of 1 for x^2 and x have a real part 1/2 - even ones that don't produce any primes at all. For example,

n^2 + n + 10

Root 1 -0.5+3.1224989992i
Root 2 -0.5-3.1224989992i

So real 1/2 for polynomials has no bearing on primality, as far as I can see.
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