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What are the patterns in prime numbers?

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The pattern in Prime numbers, are they can only be divide by it self and 1 only.
1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13 ....... ect

ans 2.
There are no true patterns in prime number distribution.

A number of near-patterns have been found. They cover a limited range of integers, and are not 100% good even in their range.

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