Binary Scenery: Primes

1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20
21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30
31	32	33	34	35	36	37	38	39	40
41	42	43	44	45	46	47	48	49	50
51	52	53	54	55	56	57	58	59	60
61	62	63	64	65	66	67	68	69	70
71	72	73	74	75	76	77	78	79	80
81	82	83	84	85	86	87	88	89	90
91	92	93	94	95	96	97	98	99	100

Lined up in 10s, prime numbers are all over the place

But when you see them lined up in 6's they fall into two neat columns (if you ignore 2 and 3 anyway)

It's to do with how the numbers 2 and 3 play with each other

It works like this:

I like this pattern, because every position means something

Where a number is, tells you something about whhere it came from and what its 'made of'.

It seems obvious that there will always be more primes, because, well, something has to fill all that space in 1 and 5, right?

And of course they sometimes come in pairs - they sit right next to each other.

Base 10 is more like a shifty neighbourhood where the numbers guard their secrets closely. Prime numbers sneak around for fear of being caught, even 3's, a true building block of numbers, will hide given half a chance.

6 is the neighbourhood where numbers come out to play