Article 6V0MC Can you solve it? Sexy maths

Can you solve it? Sexy maths

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Alex Bellos
from Science | The Guardian on (#6V0MC)

The eternal appeal of prime numbers

UPDATE: Read the solutions here

Today's puzzles celebrate prime numbers - those beguiling numbers that divide only by themselves and 1, a sequence that begins 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, and carries on forever.

The first question was suggested by Steve Thompson...a maths teacher who became one of the UK's most successful TV screenwriters.

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