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From: hofbauer@utcsri.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Spacing of Prime Numbers
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Date: Thu, 30-Apr-87 20:28:24 EDT
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Posted: Thu Apr 30 20:28:24 1987
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> 
>  This may not be news to readers  of this group, but I thought the follow-
>  ing tidbit was interesting. 
>   
>           The May issue of DISCOVER  magazine  presented a cute problem as
>  part of its brain teaser section  on  the  last page of the magazine. The
>  question was (I'm paraphrasing it):
>   
>           Prove there is a  sequence  of at least one million
>           consecutive integers, none of whom are prime.
>           
If you like this sort of stuff see the book

        Number Theory in Science and Communication
         by M.R. Schroeder