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If you examine all the prime numbers less than 100, some of them are “next-door neighbor...

If you examine all the prime numbers less than 100, some of them are “next-door neighbors”—for example, 11 and 13, 17 and 19, 71 and 73. Mathematicians call these twin primes or prime twins. What about prime triplets? Only one set of prime triplets exists: 3, 5, 7. Prove that there cannot be another set of prime triplets.

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