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15 sats \ 2 replies \ @028559d218 18 Jun \ on: Mathematicians Come Up with Integer Partition Method for Defining Prime Numbers science
Is this related to quantum computing???
Nah
It's a new chapter added to number theory
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You're partially correct, they're interlinked somewhat.
Partition functions also appear in quantum field theory and statistical mechanics — where they count possible states of a system at equilibrium.
In physics: partition functions count possible microstates.
In number theory: they count combinatorial decompositions of integers.
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