100 consecutive composite numbers
David G Radcliffe
radcliff at alpha2.csd.uwm.edu
Sun May 29 12:08:00 PDT 1994
If N is the product of all prime numbers less than k, then
the numbers N+2,N+3,...,N+k are all composite. This is the
best upper bound that I can find without doing a brute force
search.
I wrote a Maple program to search for the first prime gap of
100 or more. I am not a programmer, so please don't laugh too hard:
for i from 100 to 1500000 by 100
while nextprime(i) - prevprime(i) < 100 do
od;
The result is that there are no prime numbers between
370261 and 370373.
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