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Prime centuries 2 (Posted on 2024-09-19)

What are 19 consecutive 4-digit primes such that the difference between the greatest prime and the least prime is less than 100?

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p=setdiff(primes(9999),primes(999));

for i=1:length(p)-18

if p(i+18)-p(i)<100

fprintf('%4d ',p(i:i+18))

fprintf('\n')

end

finds

2657 2659 2663 2671 2677 2683 2687 2689 2693 2699 2707 2711 2713 2719 2729 2731 2741 2749 2753

Posted by Charlie on 2024-09-19 08:00:34

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