Table of Primes


	Produce a table of successive integers highlighting the ones that are prime numbers. Notice how irregular the pattern of primes is.


	Contributed by: Stephen Wolfram

Notice that different patterns are formed at different widths of tables.

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Contributed by: Stephen Wolfram

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