Statistics on the first six million prime numbers
Expert InsightsPublished 1961
Tables giving some statistics on the first six million prime numbers. The first table shows the distribution of differences between successive primes, as well as the first occurrence of each difference. Another table exhibits every difference greater than 100 with the lower prime of the pair being printed. The third table shows specific information for every 50,000 natural numbers, and the fourth table displays explicitly the lowest prime of each four having a 2,4,2 difference pattern. The final table lists the number of occurrences of two primes in each range of 100,000 natural numbers.
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- Copyright: RAND Corporation
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- Year: 1961
- Pages: 3
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.7249/pubs
- Document Number: P-2460
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