Pick several colors: red, blue and yellow, for example. Now assign a color to every number in a collection. Even if you do this in a random or chaotic way, certain patterns will inevitably emerge so ...

Two mathematicians have found a strange pattern in prime numbers ... in 1 than one might expect from a random sequence. “As soon as I saw the numbers, I could see it was true,” says ...

In fish and other animals, the color detecting cone cells in the retina ... and arrange themselves into a random pattern. However, they eventually rearrange themselves into a certain pattern.

Mathematicians were able to discover a pattern for what has long been considered very random: prime numbers. The surprising discovery also suggests that scientists need to be a little cautious ...

As the name suggests, researchers were surprised to find somewhat of a pattern in the infinite expanse of prime numbers, which were long thought to be random. A prime number is a whole number that ...

But, despite the endless string of unpredictable digits that make up pi, it’s not what we call a truly random number. And it actually contains all sorts of surprising patterns. The reason we can ...

Similar patterns showed up for the other combinations of endings, all deviating from the expected random values. The pair also found them in other bases, where numbers are counted in units other ...

“This is a marvelous step” toward more efficient random number generation ... its light contains a constantly changing pattern of tiny pinpricks that brighten and dim randomly.

Not so random A clear rule determines exactly what makes a prime: it’s a whole number that can’t be exactly divided by anything except 1 and itself. But there’s no discernable pattern in the ...