What is the term for a prime number pair that differs by only two, such as 11 and 13?
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Twin primes
The 'Twin Prime Conjecture' suggests there are infinitely many such pairs, but this remains one of the great unsolved mysteries of mathematics. As numbers get larger, twin primes become increasingly rare.
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