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What are 'Prime Pairs' ? |
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A de Polignac has conjenctured that every even number is the difference of two consecutive primes in infinitely many ways.
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Suppose we take the even number to be 2, this means that there are infinitely many pairs of primes that are consecutive odd
numbers such as 5, 7; 11, 13; 17, 19; 29, 31; 41, 43; 59, 61; 71, 73; these are called prime pairs.
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Another name for prime pairs is twin prime.
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On January 15, 2007 two distributed computing projects,
Twin Prime Search and PrimeGrid found the largest known twin primes,
2195000 ± 1. The numbers have 58711 decimal digits. The discoverer was Eric Vautier from France.
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