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 CousinPrimes

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Get the pairs of primes that differ by 4

Contributed by: Wolfram Staff

ResourceFunction["CousinPrimes"][n]

gives the first n pairs of primes that differ by 4.

Examples

Basic Examples (2) 

Here are the first 10 pairs of cousin primes:

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ResourceFunction["CousinPrimes"][10]
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Indeed, the differences are 4:

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Differences /@ %
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Neat Examples (3) 

The sum of the reciprocals of the primes diverges:

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Sum[1/Prime@n, {n, \[Infinity]}]
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The sum of the reciprocals of the cousin primes converges to a number around 1.673. Here is the sum of the reciprocals of the first 100,000 cousin primes:

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Total[1./Flatten@ResourceFunction["CousinPrimes"][10^5]]
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This is the last pair in that sum:

In[5]:=
Last@ResourceFunction["CousinPrimes"][10^5]
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Publisher

George Beck

Version History

  • 2.0.0 – 05 July 2019
  • 1.0.0 – 22 May 2019

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