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demonstrating geometric regularity in the distribution of the primes. The lines of primes in the
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were not much more than a hobby to him at the time, he took the job and eventually became
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herpetology to determine variation in snakes and to weight the differences between species and subspecies.
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Klauber, L. M. (1943). "The correlation of variability within and between rattlesnake populations".
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Rather, Terry (December 28, 1990). "Grace
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Klauber prime triangle. Prime numbers generated by Euler's polynomial are highlighted
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re originality of my triangle of primes."), December 31, 1931, and
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L. M. Klauber, Pacific service magazine (1924) (14594749109)
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