Talk:Prime gap
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June 24th, 2006: Under 'Further results' it states: "To verify this, as of 2006 still unresolved, problem a stronger result such as Cramér's conjecture would be needed." Shouldn't this be rewritten? I think there's an error in the buildup of the sentence.
[edit] Prime gaps that are they prime numbers themselves
Is there any prime kind described as such? Or such description would be impossible? What would be a required alteration (dvision by, subtraction of, subtraction of and division by, reduction to 2nd, 3rd, n root, etc.) to get a prime from any known prime gap chosen?
[edit] Table of maximal gaps
The table with heading "Length range" has been inserted and removed several times. It originates from [1] (the full table is in the source). It was properly explained there but somebody redirected Prime desert to this article and copied the table without explanation. It's actually a table of maximal gaps (defined in this article), but the table doesn't say so, and it ends a gap at the composites (with odd length) instead of the primes (with even length). I find the table in its current form inappropriate for Prime gap, but a properly defined table of maximal gaps (listing primes and even lengths) would be fine by me. My own site has such a table at [2]. It's also at the Prime Pages [3] (uses odd gap lengths). Should this article have a table of maximal gaps? If so, should it list all 72 known gaps or only some of them? PrimeHunter 01:27, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
Today I added a table of the 72 known maximal gaps with 3 per line to reduce the table length. It lists gn and pn, but not pn+1 (which is pn+gn) or n (which is not listed by any reference). PrimeHunter 02:58, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
