> >So, based on this conjecture, what would you guess M38 to be (roughly)?
>
> On the average, the ratio of successive exponents that result in
> prims is about
> 3/2, but that doesn't help with individual ones. For the first
> 37, the ratio
> varies from 1.015 to 4.102.
I see...I didn't really think there was any real predictability, since there
are several that are real close together and some that are far apart,
relatively.
It's like saying that the average American family has 2.5 kids, when, in
fact, I would *hope* that no family actually had 2.5 kids. :-)
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