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Legendre's conjecture


Legendre's conjecture, proposed by Adrien-Marie Legendre, states that there is a prime number between n2 and (n + 1)2 for every positive integer n. The conjecture is one of Landau's problems (1912) on prime numbers; as of 2016, the conjecture has neither been proved nor disproved.

Legendre's conjecture is one of a family of results and conjectures related to prime gaps, that is, to the spacing between prime numbers.

The prime number theorem implies that the actual number of primes between n2 and (n + 1)2OEIS is asymptotic to n/ln(n). Since this number is large for large n, this lends credence to Legendre's conjecture.

If Legendre's conjecture is true, the gap between any prime p and the next largest prime would always be at most on the order of ; in big O notation, the gaps are . Two stronger conjectures, Andrica's conjecture and Oppermann's conjecture, also both imply that the gaps have the same magnitude. It does not, however, provide a solution to the Riemann Hypothesis, but rather strengthens one of the implications of its correctness.


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