A Piece of the Pi: mathematics explained

A Piece of the Pi: mathematics explained

Random coprime numbers

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Richard Green
Mar 14, 2025
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Two integers are called coprime, or relatively prime, if they have no factors in common other than 1. For example, 10 and 21 are coprime, despite neither of them being a prime number, but 10 and 22 are not coprime because they share a common factor of 2. It is a remarkable fact that the probability that two randomly chosen large integers will be coprime…

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