Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "3Blue1Brown"
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Uh, because the graph of (theta, r) = (theta, theta) is a spiral? And so obviously the graph of some subset of the real numbers, will give you a sample of the spiral, and things will line up on a spiral? I imagine this spiral pattern in the display takes you into some pretty big prime numbers, to be built out that far. Now, imagine the really TIGHT spiral we would see if all real numbers were represented. Just one, really big, really tight spiral. Still, kind of neat that they align that way, when you take prime-number samplings of the underlying, single, counter-clockwise spiral, which is that way for no other reason that we chose to measure counterclockwise as increasing angle in polar coordinates.
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