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From: ken@rochester.ARPA (Ken Yap)
Newsgroups: sci.crypt
Subject: Re: Spacing of Prime Numbers
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Date: Sun, 24-May-87 00:27:59 EDT
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Posted: Sun May 24 00:27:59 1987
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Organization: U of Rochester, CS Dept, Rochester, NY
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Keywords: Primes

|Note that the number in question (1000003!) has over five and a half
|*million* digits (I obtained this by summing logarithms from 1 to
|1000003; the result printed as 5.56573e+06).  I somehow don't think

Stirling's approximation would have given you the answer faster.

	Ken