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Prime Numbers in Twenty (Posted on 2025-03-09) Difficulty: 1 of 5
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?

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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.

  Posted by Larry on 2025-03-09 08:35:55
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