The first polls close at 6 PM Eastern time. The avalanche starts at 7 PM. In either case, results should start appearing shortly thereafter. A handy guide to poll-closing times can be found here.
Daniel:
Alternately, you could define -1 to be prime (though you need to interpret "unique factorization" slightly differently). My understanding is that this is a good idea from a number-theoretic perspective, but a bad one from an algebraic perspective (this should however be taken with a grain of salt, as I am neither an algebraist nor a number theorist).
Dan K:
The overall smoothness of the plot is the result of the Prime Number Theorem, which says that any positive number n has approximately n/log n primes less than it (with the approximation getting better as n gets larger). Since a plot of n/log n would look exactly like a smooth curve, this means that a plot of the nth prime number should look almost like a smooth curve.
I can't entirely account for the large prime gap you noticed. Part of the reason for it, though, is that 1320 has a lot of smallish prime factors (2, 3, 5, and 11); this means that, if we add some small number to 1320, odds are that that small number will share a prime factor with 1320, and so the sum won't be prime. This idea shows that all but seven of the numbers in your range (namely 1333, 1337, 1339, 1343, 1349, 1351, and 1357) have some small factor (because all the numbers between 7 and 41 are multiples of either 2, 3, 5, or 11, with the seven exceptions 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31, and 37).
Laura: it's "Death of a Foy", I believe.
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