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Largest known twin primes

Author(s): Karl-Heinz Indlekofer; Antal Járai.
Journal: Math. Comp. 65 (1996), 427-428.
MSC (1991): Primary 11-04; Secondary 11A41
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Abstract: The numbers $697053813\cdot 2^{16352}\pm 1$ are twin primes.

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