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This notion is derived from the familiar prime gaps: The "span" of a prime is the smaller of the two gaps adjacent to it. For example, span(839) is...
8 Dec 30, 2009
5:15 am

Kermit Rose
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Hi everyone, To increase the probability of finding prime numbers I find the strategy of using four different terms for the same integer constant very useful....
1 Dec 29, 2009
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Peter Lesala
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PI(N) ~= N /[ A*(LOG(N)^2) +B*LOG(N) +C, for N <= 10^23. This can be shown by a simple regression analysis of N/PI(N) vs LOG(N). This seems like a...
2 Dec 29, 2009
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Andrey Kulsha
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To the best of my knowledge, I think that I have created a new prime number conjecture that will be proven someday. It is similiar to the Old Goldbach...
7 Dec 28, 2009
10:49 pm

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The multi-polynomial part of the multi-polynomial quadratic sieve. Hello Prime number friends. I've worked out this part of the multiple polynomial quadratic...
1 Dec 24, 2009
7:42 pm

Kermit Rose
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Sat Jan 3, 2009 10:43 pm I went to solve the same puzzle as he when the realization of magic cubes occurred. I was drawing it out at Waylon's Tavern spare time...
1 Dec 24, 2009
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Harvey D Norris
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It is noted that a squaring is not the same as a squire. Some say a squire is the attendant to the knight. And is known by the knight the pattern of its...
1 Dec 24, 2009
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Harvey D Norris
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Hi All, Since the demise of Geocities the multifactorial search has been homeless. Now thanks to the kindness of the people at Free-DC (Special thanks to Phil...
1 Dec 22, 2009
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kraDen
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I was looking for a yahoo group on mathematics that might solve some of my mathematical suppositions. I dont know how strict the moderator is as some of my...
1 Dec 21, 2009
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Harvey Norris
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Solve the recurrence equation. Continuing the theme 21127 http://chitatel2000.blogspot.com/...
2 Dec 16, 2009
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maximilian_hasler
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Hi group, 138^196873-137^196873 is PRP for bases 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 31, 71 and 101. This number has 421285 digits. Moreover, 138^p-137^p is composite...
2 Dec 13, 2009
5:33 am

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I have established the following result:- For each of the 6 currently remaining candidates for the smallest Sierpinski number, no covering set of primes, with...
6 Dec 10, 2009
11:23 pm

Jack Brennen
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I happened to look at http://primes.utm.edu/bios/top20.php?type=person&by=PrimesRank and was struck by the fact that Bouk de Water, without needing to prove...
2 Dec 10, 2009
3:20 am

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There are lots of these. but here is another nice one by M. Chaves: Theorem. A necessary and sufficient condition for the integers n>7 and n+2 to be twin...
1 Dec 7, 2009
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Chris Caldwell
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I thank David Broadhurst for indirectly reminding me that not all Pythagorean Triples are primitive. I thank Mike Oakes for indirectly reminding me that in...
1 Dec 6, 2009
3:58 pm

Kermit Rose
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Here is a small puzzle:- Find fixed integers a, b, x, y such that the expression a*x^n+b*y^n is prime for all n in the range 1 <= n <= n_max, where n_max is to...
37 Dec 5, 2009
3:49 pm

djbroadhurst
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Primes in algebraic number systems: Consider the extension to the integers, {A + B * sqrt(d) }, where A, B are variable integers, and d is a fixed integer. (a1...
3 Dec 5, 2009
7:20 am

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I've define a set of prime numbers. hypothesis and the Goldbach's conjecture of Riemann that I think would work. a certain number of N, so that, the sum of...
1 Dec 2, 2009
12:59 pm

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And why do you want to absolutely start at n=1? You might instead strat at any n=n_0 >0 value and look for the greater p consecutive n values...
2 Nov 29, 2009
5:55 am

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Perhaps someone would enjoy applying some Gaussian concepts to this basic stuff!: Previously, in September, '08 it was conjectured that: x, A(x), B(x), k,...
1 Nov 29, 2009
4:24 am

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http://chitatel2000.blogspot.com/ Update The Number Theory "Number of primes in intervals" "A million dollar problem" [Non-text portions of this message have...
2 Nov 29, 2009
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... (Forwarded) The 'numbertheory&#39; Yahoo group was very well-maintained, had a membership of 1200 and the discussion was of a high level of sophistication. ...
1 Nov 26, 2009
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Kermit Rose
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Congratulations to Henry Lifchitz for finding a record Fibonacci PrP http://www.primenumbers.net/prptop/detailprp.php?rank=5 Lélio [Non-text portions of this...
1 Nov 21, 2009
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Lélio Ribeiro de ...
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2b. Re: Composite number function(2) Posted by: "djbroadhurst&quot; d.broadhurst@... djbroadhurst Date: Thu Nov 19, 2009 9:10 pm ((PST)) ... Hello David. ......
1 Nov 20, 2009
3:00 pm

Kermit Rose
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1a. Re: Composite integer function Posted by: "Yann Guidon" whygee@... yasep16 Date: Wed Nov 18, 2009 9:02 am ((PST)) Hello Kermit, it seems that my...
2 Nov 20, 2009
5:10 am

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Given any prime expressed as a+b, is there always some a,b such that 2^a*3^b is one away from a prime? I doubt it but have yet to find a counterexample. Below...
3 Nov 20, 2009
4:33 am

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You might be interested in the following two variable function. Define F(m,k) recursively as follows. F(1,1) = 15 F(m+1,k) = F(m,k) + 4*(2*m + k + 2) F(m,k+1)...
2 Nov 18, 2009
5:02 pm

Yann Guidon
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Jens Kruse Andersen's very nice "Primes in Arithmetic Progression Records" page at: http://users.cybercity.dk/~dsl522332/math/aprecords.htm lists "The...
14 Nov 17, 2009
7:50 pm

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David, you are absolutely correct, i misstated that conjecture. the conjecture asks whether o_p(2) = p-1 for infinitely many primes. this would correspond to ...
1 Nov 15, 2009
3:17 pm

luis galup
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Greetings all, let o_p(2) = order of 2 in F_p. in other words, o_p(2) = card{ 2^0 (mod p), 2^1 (mod p), ... , 2^p (mod p) } we know that it is an open...
2 Nov 15, 2009
11:49 am

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