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Sexy primes (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 3 weeks ago by Stern@lemmy.world to c/wikipedia@lemmy.world

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[–] cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 weeks ago

TL;DR: "Sexy" refers to "Sex" as in, the prefix that means "six," specifically prime numbers that are 6 apart from each other (e.g. 5/11, 13/19, etc. — more examples are given at the link.

There's nothing "sexy" about the math, it's just a play on the word sex as meaning both procreation, and its relation to the number six.