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A005250 Increasing gaps between primes.
(Formerly M0994)
+0
27
1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 14, 18, 20, 22, 34, 36, 44, 52, 72, 86, 96, 112, 114, 118, 132, 148, 154, 180, 210, 220, 222, 234, 248, 250, 282, 288, 292, 320, 336, 354, 382, 384, 394, 456, 464, 468, 474, 486, 490, 500, 514, 516, 532, 534, 540, 582, 588, 602, 652 (list; graph; listen)
OFFSET

1,2

COMMENT

Here a "gap" means prime(n+1)-prime(n), but in other references it can mean prime(n+1)-prime(n)-1.

REFERENCES

B. C. Berndt, Ramanujan's Notebooks Part IV, Springer-Verlag, see p. 133.

R. K. Guy, Unsolved Problems in Number Theory, A8.

J. Young and A. Potler, First occurrence prime gaps, Math. Comp., 52 (1989), 221-224.

LINKS

N. J. A. Sloane, Table of n, a(n) for n=1..74 (from the web page of Tomas Oliveira e Silva)

Alex Beveridge, Table giving knowm values of A000101(n), A005250(n), A107578(n)

C. K. Caldwell, Table of prime gaps

C. K. Caldwell, Gaps up to 1132

T. R. Nicely, Some Results of Computational Research in Prime Numbers

T. R. Nicely, List of Gaps

Tomas Oliveira e Silva, Gaps between consecutive primes

Index entries for primes, gaps between

FORMULA

a(n) = A000101(n)-A002386(n) = A008996(n-1) - M. F. Hasler (Maximilian.Hasler(AT)gmail.com), Dec 13 2007

MATHEMATICA

a=0; s=""; For[i=1, i<10^5, p1=Prime[i]; p2=Prime[i+1]; e=p2-p1; If[e>a, s=s<>ToString[e]<>", "; a=e]; i++ ]; Print[s] (from Vladimir Orlovsky (4vladimir(AT)gmail.com), May 01 2008)

PROGRAM

(PARI) p=q=2; g=0; until( g<(q=nextprime(1+p=q))-p & print1(g=q-p, ", "), ) \\ - M. F. Hasler, Dec 13 2007

CROSSREFS

Cf. A002386, A000101, A008996, A058320, A107578.

Sequence in context: A054409 A089747 A049015 this_sequence A039597 A000937 A068902

Adjacent sequences: A005247 A005248 A005249 this_sequence A005251 A005252 A005253

KEYWORD

nonn,nice

AUTHOR

njas, R. K. Guy

EXTENSIONS

More terms from Andreas Boerner (andreas.boerner(AT)altavista.net), Jul 11 2000. Additional comments from Frank Ellermann (Frank.Ellermann(AT)t-online.de), Apr 20 2001

More terms from Robert G. Wilson v (rgwv(AT)rgwv.com), Jan 03 2002; May 01 2006

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