This is a super interesting question. Part of the problem is that IF the distribution* of prime factors DOES approach a limit: THEN *in what sense* does it approach the limit? Because it certainly isn't the standard limit. Maybe in a lim inf or lim sup sort of a way? Probability theory has a sense of convergence for continuous distributions on the reals that as I recall is, you compare two distributions by taking the difference of their *cumulative* distribution functions, and integrate something like the square of that difference over R. Maybe something like this works, I don't know. —Dan
On Apr 29, 2017, at 3:25 PM, rcs@xmission.com wrote:
what a typical factorization looked like for large integers
—Dan ————————————————————————————————————————————— * In *some* sense of the word "distribution".