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But there are also upper bounds for the gaps in the sequence of prime numbers. A famous bound states that “the gap to the next prime cannot be larger than the number we start our search at.”
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Aigner, M., Ziegler, G.M. (2018). Bertrand’s postulate. In: Proofs from THE BOOK. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-57265-8_2
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