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  1. Newsgroups: sci.math
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!sun-barr!ames!sgi!wdl1!wdl39!mab
  3. From: mab@wdl39.wdl.loral.com (Mark A Biggar)
  4. Subject: Re: Prime conjecture
  5. Message-ID: <1992Aug12.214311.8476@wdl.loral.com>
  6. Sender: news@wdl.loral.com
  7. Organization: Loral Western Development Labs
  8. References: <Aug.11.04.02.28.1992.3070@remus.rutgers.edu> <1992Aug11.162953.13961@uwm.edu> <18990@nntp_server.ems.cdc.com>
  9. Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 21:43:11 GMT
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  12. In article <18990@nntp_server.ems.cdc.com> mstemper@ems.cdc.com writes:
  13. >In article <1992Aug11.162953.13961@uwm.edu>, radcliff@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (David G Radcliffe) writes:
  14. >|>    Conjecture:  There exists a k > 0 so that p + k is prime 
  15. >|>                 for infinitely many primes p.
  16. >|> Does anybody know the status of the this conjecture?
  17. >I believe that
  18. >  There exist infinitely many primes p
  19. >  Such that p+2 is prime
  20. >has been proven, which would prove this conjecture by showing k=2.
  21. >Related questions: Now that we know that there exists a k, are there
  22. >other k's that satisfy this condition? If so, is there a largest k
  23. >that satisfies this condition?
  24.  
  25. Please give a reference for this.  I thought that the twin primes
  26. conjecture was still open.
  27.  
  28. --
  29. Mark Biggar
  30. mab@wdl1.wdl.loral.com
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