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OK, I understand. Strange that the non-successive primes are numbered with successive indices though. PS: Well, actually not because they are not numbering all
by _Microft 7y ago
OK, I understand. Strange that the non-successive primes are numbered with successive indices though.
PS: Well, actually not because they are not numbering all primes but numbering primes they know.
- kosievdmerwe 7y agoEven if they are successive then the product plus one might not be prime, since the product plus one is so much larger than p_n, there might be a prime that divides it (and likely at least 2). The first non-prime example is 2x3x5x7x11x13 + 1 which equals 59 x 509
- _Microft 7y agoSure, see my first post about that. I amended it shortly after I posted but it felt wrong to remove the part that people responded too already.