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		Confusion on July 18, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Prime number patterns Name me a pattern that, from the primes below 100, can be used to extrapolate, with certainty, the first prime above 100.

monochromatic on July 18, 2012 [–]

That's an awfully restrictive definition of "pattern." For what it's worth, I'd say that more mathematics has been devoted to the study of patterns in the primes than to any other single topic.

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