Phil

Ah, that would explain why both 2 and 3 were exceptions in the hypothesis!

greg
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from: Philip Hunt (USA) <[email protected]>
to: [email protected]
date: 14 May 2013 08:38
subject: Re: [Jprogramming] Testing consecutive pairs of primes

>Before I make a fool of myself I'll apologize up front that I'm an absolute 
>beginner in J... :-) and I love learning from these posts (although some are 
>still beyond my reach).

>Comment: Simple number theory says that all prime pairs are a multiple of 6 
>plus/minus 1, since when in mod 6 all numbers are remainder 0,1,2,3,4,5 and 
>only 1,5 are possible primes. So by this rule any prime pairs you find must 
>surround a simple multiple of 6

am I missing something?
Phil
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