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Composite numbers (Posted on 2003-03-05) Difficulty: 3 of 5
Find 2000 consecutive composite numbers.

(Of course you can't do this by trial and error alone)

For those who do not know what a composite number is, it is any integer greater than 1 that is not prime. (4, 6, 8, 9, ...)

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answer | Comment 18 of 23 |

A possible solution is:

2001! + 2, 2001! + 3, 2001! + 4,........., 2001! + 2001

Edited on November 29, 2007, 5:08 am
  Posted by K Sengupta on 2007-11-29 05:06:59

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