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If you arrange the first 12 primes into exponentiated summands, you get a prime number:

23 + 57 + 1113 + 1719 + 2329 + 3137 = 15148954872646850196557152427604893685308877022260348791 is prime.

(From Fermat’s Library.)

August 18, 2020August 18, 2020 | Science & Math

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