Talk:Sexy primes: Difference between revisions

Sexy primes isn't significantly different from successive primes. Rosetta code is about algorithmic expression rather than tricking programmers into not searching through highest prime plus six. Please remove the task. --LambertDW 15:16, 20 May 2019 (UTC)

:I think the problem is with the Successive Primes task. Which primes separated by 2 are not successive? (none). Which primes separated by 4 are not successive? (only 3 and 7 with 5 playing gooseberry). Interest begins at 6 when 7 and 13 are a sexy pair but are not successive (11 playing gooseberry). So we have a sequence of sexy primes starting at 7, and a sequence of successive primes separated by 6 starting at 31 which is a subset of the sexy primes. Beyond being a subset what other relationships exist? What happens beyond 6? As it stands the Successive Primes task offers no insight into Successive Primes. I have added 2 references to that task. The first looks at the number theoretic issues, the second at some interesting questions that can be asked about Successive Primes. Another contributor has added a third reference which takes one of the questions asked in 2 (what is the longest sequence of Successive Primes with increasing separation?) to the max.--[[User:Nigel Galloway|Nigel Galloway]] ([[User talk:Nigel Galloway|talk]]) 10:26, 21 May 2019 (UTC)