Yes, but why do they therefore periodically go into formations of one, two, three or more coherent lines of balls? Is there a name for this specific phenomenon (which turns up in a couple of other interesting places)?
That's just number theory. It's exactly the same as the way that every so often, multiples of, say, 2, 3, and 5 coincide.
I'd write them out to demonstrate but LJ would eat my formatting... but you get 6, then 10, then 12, then 15, and so on, then a whopper at 30, and on it goes. Add more primes and the pattern gets even more complex.
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And the pretty patterns are just that -- you have a bunch of things with slightly different periods that line up and don't.
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It's exactly the same as the way that every so often, multiples of, say, 2, 3, and 5 coincide.
I'd write them out to demonstrate but LJ would eat my formatting...
but you get 6, then 10, then 12, then 15, and so on, then a whopper at 30, and on it goes. Add more primes and the pattern gets even more complex.
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