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Lucky Luciano

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6. Could you help me with a math problem?

Reply to Buckeye_Democrat (Reply #3)

Tue Feb 2, 2021, 02:10 AM

Feb 2021

I’m trying to show that there is an infinite list of pairs of primes that differ by 2. For example {3,5}, {5,7}, {11,13}, {17,19}, etc. I’m stuck trying to show there is such an infinite list. No matter how hard I try. Math is hard.

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