Prime Gap of 654/Historical Note

Historical Note on Prime Gap of 654

This prime gap was reported by David Wells in his Curious and Interesting Numbers of $1986$ as being a record.

However, in $1993$ a prime gap of 864 was found between the smaller prime numbers $6 \, 505 \, 941 \, 701 \, 960 \, 039$ and $6 \, 505 \, 941 \, 701 \, 960 \, 903$, again by Sol Weintraub.


Sources

  • 1986: David Wells: Curious and Interesting Numbers ... (previous) ... (next): $11,000,001,446,613,353$
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