the first bidecade of numbers (1-20), there are precisely 8 prime numbers (2,3,5,7,11,13,17,19).
Are there other such bidecades with 8 prime numbers?
No.
Unless the smallest prime in the bidecade is 2, there can be no even prime numbers.
In any set of 20 consecutive numbers there are only 10 odds, and 3 of them are divisible by 3. So there cannot be more than 7 primes in a span of 20 consecutive integers.
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Posted by Larry
on 2025-03-09 08:35:55 |