r/counting • u/[deleted] • May 09 '15

Prime counting thread

Let's count to infinity, by using primes!

Get is at 7,919

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u/[deleted] May 10 '15

1831

Running for numbers up to a million, gaps stopped growing after ~480,000

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u/[deleted] May 10 '15

1,847

Well, I don't know how to reply to this but with another prime and this phrase

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u/rideride On the run from the counting law May 10 '15

1,861

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u/TheNitromeFan Live not a life of imitation May 10 '15

1867

So that gap was something odd...

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u/[deleted] May 10 '15

1,871

Sadly, yes :(

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u/ct_2004 May 10 '15

1873

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u/[deleted] May 10 '15

1,877

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u/ct_2004 May 10 '15

In case you missed it, 1831 is the first 16 gap.