Goldbach's comet is the name given to a plot of the function, the so-called Goldbach function. The Goldbach function is studied in relation to Goldbach's conjecture. The function is defined for all even integers to be the number of different ways in which E can be expressed as the sum of two primes. For example, since 22 can be expressed as the sum of two primes in three different ways .
The coloring of points in the above image is based on the value of modulo 3 with red points corresponding to 0 mod 3,blue points corresponding to 1 mod 3 and green points corresponding to 2 mod 3.
Read more about Goldbach's Comet: Anatomy of The Goldbach Comet
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