Number Theory

From: Troubled (mkajumap_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 07/21/04 

Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 02:35:40 GMT

A friend of mine just informed me that there is a perfect square between the
sum of the 1st n primes and the sum of the 1st (n+1) primes. Not haven taken
a number theory course I really don't see how to prove this. Non the less I
would love to see the proof.
Thanks,
Mkajuma

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