Social Media for Number Theorists
Invented social-media definitions for prime numbers (retweets, spambots, phishing, trolls, followers, lurkers and influencers), each with a real example.
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[Title] "Social Media for Number Theorists"
prime retweet: the reappearance of a smaller prime within the digits of a larger prime (e.g., 239 contains a retweet of 23) · spambot prime: a prime that consists entirely of retweets (e.g., 6917 is 691 and 7) · viral prime: a prime with infinitely many retweets · phishing prime: a number that looks prime but isn't (e.g., 91) · troll prime: a prime written in a different base so that it ends in 2, 4, 5, 6, or 8 (e.g., 35₈ or 32₇) · follower prime: a prime p₂ that closely follows another prime p₁, so that p₁ < p₂ < p₁ + log(p₁) (e.g., 13 is a follower of 11) · lurker prime: a prime with no followers (e.g., 73) · influencer prime: a prime with multiple followers (e.g., 461) · top-level influencer: an influencer, at least one of whose followers is also an influencer (e.g., 457)