Gilbreath's conjecture

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    A conjecture in number theory regarding the sequences generated by applying the forward difference operator to consecutive prime numbers and leaving the results unsigned, and then repeating this process on consecutive terms in the resulting sequence, and so forth. The first term in every such sequence appears to be 1.

    数学

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Named after mathematician Norman L. Gilbreath, who presented it in 1958.

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