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mathematics teaching 10 ~ 16

Saturday, 8 October 2011

3 primes

find a sequence of three primes, starting with 3 and with a constant difference (in an arithmetical progression)

here is one:









3, 7, 11

another example is 3 , 23 , 43

why can't the common difference be 6 or divisible by 6?

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