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It is comfortable to verify that $x=5!=120$ satisfies the request... and the reason of that is easy to see...is it possible to find a 6 Successive numbers like
x , x+1 , x+2 , x+3 ,x+4 ,x+5 such that one one is prime ?
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An easy way to get the result in the particular case where k is prime is based on the consideration that $k|n \implies k|(n+m k)$. Setting $n = 2 \cdot 3 \cdot 5 \cdot ... \cdot k$ we are sure that $n+2,n+3,...,n+k+1$ are all non prime numbers. For example...Why don't try to generalize the problem: given k, how to compute an n such that n, n+1, n+2,...,n+k are all non prime numbers?...
nice one I get itAn easy way to get the result in the particular case where k is prime is based on the consideration that $k|n \implies k|(n+m k)$. Setting $n = 2 \cdot 3 \cdot 5 \cdot ... \cdot k$ we are sure that $n+2,n+3,...,n+k+1$ are all non prime numbers. For example...
$\displaystyle k=11 \implies n=2310 \implies 2312,2313,2314,2315,2316,2317,2318,2319,2320,2321,2322\ \text{are all non prime }$
Although 'easy' this method is often 'excessive' because the effective quantity consecutive non prime numbers can be greater. In the given example 2311 is prime so that the sequence starts at 2312 but 2323,2324,2325,2326,2327,2328,2329,2330,2331 and 2332 are non prime numbers [2333 is prime...] and the effective sequence's length is 20 [not 11]...
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Is it possible to find a 6 consecutive integers numbers like
x , x+1 , x+2 , x+3 ,x+4 ,x+5 such that not one is prime? . Yes!
Thanks, and HelloHello, Amer!
One solution is: .[tex]x \:=\:7!+2[/tex]
. . [tex]\begin{array}{c}7!+2\text{ is divisible by 2} \\
7!+3\text{ is divisible by 3} \\ 7!+4\text{ is divisible by 4} \\
7!+5\text{ is divisible by 5} \\ 7!+6 \text{ is divisible by 6} \\
7!+7\text{ is divisible by 7} \\ \end{array}[/tex]
There is a simpler (and much longer) list:
. . [tex]\begin{array}{ccc} 114 &=& 2\cdot57 \\ 115 &=& 5\cdot 23 \\ 116 &=& 2\cdot 58 \\ 117 &=& 3\cdot39 \\ 118 &=& 2\cdot59 \\ 119 &=& 7\cdot17 \\ 120 &=& 2\cdot60 \\ 121 &=& 11\cdot11 \\ 122 &=& 2\cdot61 \\ 123 &=& 3\cdot41 \\ 124 &=& 2\cdot62 \\ 125 &=& 5\cdot25 \\ 126 &=& 2\cdot63 \end{array}[/tex]