Re: Prime Numbers

In article
<Pine.BSI.4.58.0612292018050.13018@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
William Elliot <marsh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

What is the probability that when chosing
two consequitive primes, they will differ by two?
an odd prime, the next odd number will be prime?

two consequitive odd integers, they will both be prime?

The probablity is zero if there aren't infinitely many twin primes.
If there are infinitely many twin primes, I'll conjecture zero.

The questions are ill-posed. You need to specify a
sampling distribution.

--
Michael Press
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