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On twin ‘primes’ and gaps between successive ‘primes’ for the Hawkins random sieve†

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

Werner Neudecker
Werner Neudecker
Affiliation:
University College, Swansea, Wales
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1. In this paper we shall use the methods of (6) to give a short proof of Wunderlich's result (7, 8) on the distribution of twin ‘primes’ for the Hawkins random sieve. We shall also obtain a sharp estimate on the gaps between successive ‘primes’.

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Research Article
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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 77 , Issue 2 , March 1975 , pp. 365 - 367
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1975

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