[extropy-chat] damien's psi book

[David]

spike wrote:
>>Subject: Re: [extropy-chat] damien's psi book
>>
>>On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 21:08:18 -0800, spike <spike66 at comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>>>...  But what about the tens column: are
>>>the tens column of the primes evenly distributed
>>>enough over all ten digits to pass the traditional
>>>tests for randomness?
> 
> 
> Four extropians have pinged me offlist, so I will answer
> here: the lower digits are slightly more common than the 
> higher digits.  There are slightly more 1s than 9s.
> 
> 

SNIP

How about if you start with say, the seven digit primes, and discard
first two and last two digits. Would that give you truly random numbers?

-David