twin primes
plural nounDefinition of twin primes
: a pair of prime numbers (such as 3 and 5 or 11 and 13) differing by two
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And results similar to the twin primes conjecture have been proved. — Quanta Magazine, "Where Proof, Evidence and Imagination Intersect," 14 Mar. 2019 The largest currently known pair of twin primes have nearly 400,000 digits each. — Quanta Magazine, "Where Proof, Evidence and Imagination Intersect," 14 Mar. 2019 Recently, de Grey was involved with a Polymath collaboration that led to significant progress on the twin prime problem. — Evelyn Lamb, WIRED, "An Anti-Aging Pundit Solves a Decades-Old Math Problem," 30 Apr. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'twin primes.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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