More fun with prime numbers in Alteryx

Upon completing Alteryx Weekly Challenge #79, I had one remaining related sub-challenge that I wanted to solve with Alteryx. That was to find the nearest prime to a given number n based on a lookup table, but one that had memory. So that if a number was larger than the largest prime in the lookup…

Prime Numbers: How One Alteryx Weekly Challenge Led Me Down a Rabbit Hole

Why do people like prime numbers? Prime numbers are intuitive enough for anyone to access (integers only divisible by 1 and itself), yet they tickle the imagination by going off to infinity without any pattern. Christopher, the main character in the novel “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time” by Mark Haddon, describes…