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Article #3555Re: Spacing of Prime Numbers
From: hofbauer
Date: Fri, 01 May 1987 00:28
Date: Fri, 01 May 1987 00:28
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> This may not be news to readers of this group, but I thought the follow-
> ing tidbit was interesting.
>
> The May issue of DISCOVER magazine presented a cute problem as
> part of its brain teaser section on the last page of the magazine. The
> question was (I'm paraphrasing it):
>
> Prove there is a sequence of at least one million
> consecutive integers, none of whom are prime.
>
If you like this sort of stuff see the book
Number Theory in Science and Communication
by M.R. Schroeder
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