Document Type

Article

Department

Mathematics (Pomona)

Publication Date

11-2013

Keywords

quotients, primes, Gaussian primes, complex plane, dense

Abstract

It has been observed many times, both in the Monthly and elsewhere, that the set of all quotients of prime numbers is dense in the positive real numbers. In this short note we answer the related question: "Is the set of all quotients of Gaussian primes dense in the complex plane?"

Comments

This article is also available from the American Mathematical Monthly at: http://www.maa.org/press/periodicals/american-mathematical-monthly/american-mathematical-monthly-contents-november-2013.

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