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Keith Backman
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7 votes
1 answer
362 views

Occurence of numbers not divisible by primes

7 votes
1 answer
377 views

Closed form for totient related product

6 votes
0 answers
301 views

A horrendous sieve with potentially terrific consequences

6 votes
1 answer
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Euler's totient function applied to higher power triples

6 votes
1 answer
2k views

How many ways can a number $n>2$ be expressed as the difference of two squares?

5 votes
3 answers
175 views

When is $x^2+9y^2 \pm y$ a perfect square

4 votes
1 answer
107 views

Superior limit of sum of iterates of $\phi (n)$

4 votes
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The phenomenon of 'reach' in sieves with regard to prime numbers

4 votes
2 answers
252 views

Is there an algorithm for finding squares with a given difference?

4 votes
2 answers
634 views

A slightly stronger version of the Goldbach conjecture?

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0 answers
747 views

A different approach to the strong Goldbach conjecture?

4 votes
1 answer
187 views

More on Goldbach

4 votes
2 answers
290 views

A conjecture about primorials

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0 answers
127 views

The sign of $\left(\frac{p-1}{2}\right)! \equiv \pm1 \bmod p$ when $p=4k+3$

3 votes
0 answers
47 views

Another question about numbers of the form $p_i\#+p_{n+1}$

3 votes
0 answers
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Primes of the form $\frac{p_m\#}{2} \pm 2^j$

3 votes
4 answers
190 views

When are numbers of the form $m^2+9k^2\pm k$ perfect squares?

3 votes
3 answers
512 views

Reformulating the Goldbach conjecture in a quasi-Pythagorean form

3 votes
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258 views

Is there any algorithm to identify the smallest example of gap size $n-1$ between consecutive prime numbers

3 votes
2 answers
670 views

A sieve for twin primes; does it imply there are infinite many twin primes?

3 votes
2 answers
602 views

A twin prime theorem, and a reformulation of the twin prime conjecture

3 votes
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Existence of prime numbers in the interval $[n^2,(n+\alpha)^2]$

3 votes
2 answers
170 views

Is the expected number of primes in a specific interval $[p_n^2,p_{n+1}^2]$ approximately $p_n$?

3 votes
0 answers
64 views

Consecutive numbers removed by a sieve

3 votes
3 answers
580 views

Finding positive integer solutions to $a!+5^b=7^c$

2 votes
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16 views

Positional separation of additive inverses in specifically ordered sets

2 votes
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46 views

Maximum number of distinct primes in a defined product

2 votes
2 answers
193 views

Can the sum of squares of odd primes equal the square of an odd prime?

2 votes
0 answers
26 views

Concerning the number of members of a primitive residue class $\bmod n$ which are their own multiplicative inverses

2 votes
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45 views

Defined intervals conjectured to contain at least one pair of twin primes