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		DerekL 6 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Prime numbers so memorable that people hunt for th... No, that doesn't fit the pattern. The number in the middle can't be repeated.

Retric 6 months ago [–]

That’s how it’s excluded, not why we should care about the pattern being exactly that formula.

DerekL 6 months ago | [–]

Sure, you could also look for primes of the form 123…(n-1)n⋅n(n-1)…321.

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