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A remark on primes in arithmetic progressions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2009

Ronald Alter
Affiliation:
University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA.
Mark Villarino
Affiliation:
University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA.
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Abstract

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By generalizing a technique of Landau, the authors prove that the excess of the number of primes of the form 10x ± 3 over the number of primes of the form 10x ± 1 is infinite.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1970

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