First Occurrence of a given Gap between Consecutive Primes
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Heuristic arguments are given, that the pair of consecutive primes separated by a distance d appears for the rst time at p f (d) p d exp 1 2 q ln 2 (d) + 4d. The comparison with the results of the computer search provides the support for the conjectured formula.
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تاریخ انتشار 1997