From: Jim choate <ravage@bga.com>
Date: Mon, 30 May 94 17:11:06 PDT
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Subject: 100 consecutive composite numbers (fwd)
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Subject: 100 consecutive composite numbers
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If N is the product of all prime numbers less than k, then
the numbers N+2,N+3,...,N+k are all composite.  This is the
best upper bound that I can find without doing a brute force
search.

I wrote a Maple program to search for the first prime gap of
100 or more.  I am not a programmer, so please don't laugh too hard:

  for i from 100 to 1500000 by 100
  while nextprime(i) - prevprime(i) < 100 do
  od;

The result is that there are no prime numbers between
370261 and 370373.