A brilliant way to visualize numbers

See the new and improved version (that works on mobile):

Jacob is now 23 and a doctoral student at the Perimeter Institute for Advanced Theoretical Physics.

[Ikebot]

UPDATE: I've made a new and improved version that now works on mobile!

[aarohgokhale]

Basically prime number polygons and then you combine them to form composite numbers

[iamdigory]

I've been making diagrams like this for some time, but I've never found a good way to differentiate the large primes, I don't like how they all end up looking the same

[drdesten]

Imo the most efficient way to think about numbers is their decimal representation in normal or scientific notation

[Ikebot]

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[iifkqjd]

you are amazing!! wonderful idea!! thank you so much!!

[RoboticusMusic]

It would be great if you could assign LFO's with rate, upper and lower range, tempo sync, and different waveforms, for each px value, and if they can remain through number changes.

[mirastyle]

Ok. Nice. But multiplication is comutative so this 3 lines on each vertex of a triangle must be somehow isomorphic to two triangles connected by a line, etc.

[timh]

problem is it's non abelian. each non prime will have (n! - a correction term for possible overlap) different representations which may look entirely different (where n is the amount of numbers in it's prime factorization). cool looking though

[KimTiger]

Thinking of numbers in 2 dimensions, fascinating. Now do this in 3 dimensions. How about 4D ?

[digmsymii]

Does it have any advantages over the regular decimal number system?

[RoboticusMusic]

What are some use cases? They sort of look nice, like viruses.

[jemuzuthestrangebear]

so it's a way to visualise prime factorization I guess?

[bhatkrishnakishor]

Interesting how prime numbers are all polygons.

[okhstorm]

Hey I can't get to your website there is a problem

[ZTenski]

Right, but where is he now? I can't find his name on anything.

[minaazad]

Well, this is actually the definition of a side. It is not complicated or innovative at all. Triangle, three-line, three points, pentagon 5 lines 5 points, hexagon, etc., consider each point as a number and connect it with a line. 😐

[amanw]

hey can I please get your email, I should check your YouTube email
this is brilliant ❤❤
I saw his Ted tall few hours ago only
just checked your description 😬