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Re:Happy Prime Year by aeurielesn on Saturday January 01, 2011 @11:00AM (#2057760)
2011 is a Sexy Prime[1] too.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexy_prime

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Re:Happy Prime Year by ourfrank on Saturday January 01, 2011 @03:58PM (#2058411)
How? A sexy prime seems to be a pair of prime numbers, not one number.

2011 is, like 2017, a prime number. Therefore (2011, 2017) is a sexy prime, or a pair of prime numbers where one is larger than the other by 6.

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