stackyFACTSNumbers like eleven and thirteen, or forty-one and forty-three, sit agonizingly close to each other, separated only by a single even number. The Twin Prime Conjecture posits that these pairs stretch on infinitely, but mathematicians still haven't been able to decisively prove it, which deeply annoys them.
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