Problem 52614. Easy Sequences 12: 50th Prime

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margin-top: 0px; perspective-origin: 28.5px 8px; transform-origin: 28.5px 8px; unicode-bidi: normal; ">NOTE: If n<span style="block-size: auto; display: inline; margin-block-end: 0px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-inline-end: 0px; margin-inline-start: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; perspective-origin: 193.5px 8px; transform-origin: 193.5px 8px; unicode-bidi: normal; "> itself is prime start counting from the next prime greater than n<span style="block-size: auto; display: inline; margin-block-end: 0px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-inline-end: 0px; margin-inline-start: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; perspective-origin: 2px 8px; transform-origin: 2px 8px; unicode-bidi: normal; ">.</div></div></div>

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Jean-Marie Sainthillier on 27 Jun 2022

Anything but an easy problem.

Rafael S.T. Vieira on 17 Nov 2022

I guess that Matlab gives some people the wrong impression that everything is easy.

Rafael S.T. Vieira on 18 Nov 2022

And Java, apparently. (tip)

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Rafael S.T. Vieira on 18 Nov 2022

Don't feel bad. Big prime numbers cannot be found on an internet search. People publish scientific papers about it. The most extensive prime number list I found only showed the first 50 million.

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