# Interesting prime powers relationship

One day, I was thinking about primes that add up to 30 and all I thought about was:

$(7,23) , (11,19) , (13,17)$

And I found out that the interesting thing when I got the difference of each pair they were actually powers of 2!

$23-7=16=4^2=2^4$

$19-11=8=2^3$

$17-13=4=2^2$

And the prime factorization of 30 was $2^1$ times $3^1$ times $5^1$ which were consecutive primes. So I suspect there is a relationship that does this

1 year, 10 months ago

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- 1 year, 10 months ago

How do you get all of this colouring and stuff

- 1 year, 10 months ago

If you want I will give you latex codes links wait.

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Great. Will try them later

- 1 year, 10 months ago

You are a teacher. Someone who sacrifices

- 1 year, 10 months ago

Don't use such big words. I am still just a student. When compared to the knowledge of highly intelligent members in brilliant my intelligence is like a pebble. But the thing is I made my fundamentals strong. Those whose fundamentals are strong they need not see back in their life.

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Finish quoting

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I should quote this

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Using latex codes. You can move you cursor on the text and you will be able to see the code or just click "Toggle Latex" which will appear in the section where profile, stats,account settings are there. Check it.

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Thank you

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Thank you. Now I have to give you a treat for giving me this knowledge

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Please stop. Do you know how irritating it is when someone in your class calls you a genius. I am being bullied everyday by people who positively give me complements

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No it is just a reward from a person who is just elder than you in knowledge and experience.

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THANK YOU

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It's Ok. I liked your curiosity of gaining and grasping the subject which I used to have in my childhood. That's the reason my fundas are strong.

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I know. I am also Indian

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No problem. I am surprised to see that a young boy of age just $10$ years is having this much curiosity about learning the subject.

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Did you see my note : Tricks for memorizing e

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Yes. I have seen it. It is a good observation.

- 1 year, 10 months ago

I think the probable reason may that any multiple of $2$ can be expressed in the form $2^a - 2^b$ where $a,b$ are integers. Also, when any two prime numbers except 2 are added or subtracted they always result in an even number.

- 1 year, 10 months ago

For 210 I got 173,37 and the difference was 136 which was equal to 10^2+6^2=2(6^2)+8^2

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