Autistic Savants and Mathematical sequence prediction.

Abstract

In the third paper in a series of papers on autism savants, detection of giftedness and the use of mental arithmetic as an intervention in autism and a practice of metal wellness, we describe the use of python scripts towards primality detection exercises, of both small primes and arbitrary sized numbers and several other exercises including sequence prediction, inspired by branch prediction architectures. Sequence prediction as a mental exercise, is used as infotainment and as a wellness exercise, and a possible intervention in ASD. Several prediction mechanisms inspired by data and prediction algorithms are described. Keywords: ASD, Autism Savants, Education For The Gifted, primality detection, data mining, basket of associations, sequences, branch prediction, plotting graphs.