Riffs and Rotes • Happy New Year 2025
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\( \text{Let} ~ p_n = \text{the} ~ n^\text{th} ~ \text{prime}. \)
\( \text{Then} ~ 2025
= 81 \cdot 25
= 3^4 5^2 \)
\( = {p_2}^4 {p_3}^2
= {p_2}^{{p_1}^{p_1}} {p_3}^{p_1}
= {p_{p_1}}^{{p_1}^{p_1}} {p_{p_2}}^{p_1}
= {p_{p_1}}^{{p_1}^{p_1}} {p_{p_{p_1}}}^{p_1} \)
No information is lost by dropping the terminal 1s. Thus we may write the following form.
\[ 2025 = {p_p}^{p^p} {p_{p_p}}^p \]
The article linked below tells how forms of that sort correspond to a family of digraphs called “riffs” and a family of graphs called “rotes”. The riff and rote for 2025 are shown in the next two Figures.
Riff 2025
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.files.wordpress.com/2025/01/riff-2025.png
Rote 2025
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.files.wordpress.com/2025/01/rote-2025.png
Reference —
Riffs and Rotes
• https://oeis.org/wiki/Riffs_and_Rotes
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