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Stangerzv

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My New Primes with a Strange Property

Consider these two equation:

There are plenty of Primes of this form:

But there is no prime of this form:

If you could find a prime then you must be kool:) If you could find one, n should be greater than at least 100,000.

If you could find a counterexample then it would be a pleasure to see if you could find the twin primes of the form as follows:

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Stangerzv

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Re: My New Primes with a Strange Property

The Generalize equation can be written as follows:

I do believe it would behave more less the same for all t>1

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Stangerzv

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Re: My New Primes with a Strange Property

For t=1,

There are plenty of Prime of this form.

But for this equation:

There are only two primes for n<1,000,000 (i.e. 2 & 5)

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bobbym

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Re: My New Primes with a Strange Property

Hi;

P5 is not a prime. And n=2 is the only possible prime! The proof is quite easy.

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Stangerzv

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Re: My New Primes with a Strange Property

Hi bobbym

(1+2)-1=2 and 1+2+3-1=5, sorry anyway, need to replace all s with t.

Stangerzv

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Re: My New Primes with a Strange Property

Yeah..I found out the proof too:) Quite easy though!

Stangerzv

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Re: My New Primes with a Strange Property

Therefore, the only twin prime for this generalize equation is (5,7).

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Stangerzv

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Re: My New Primes with a Strange Property

The proof is as follows:

Since

Then

=>

Which can be factorized as follows:

Which is a composite number.

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Stangerzv

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Re: My New Primes with a Strange Property

Primes only occur at even t of the form 2^a for

where a is an integer

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