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Question on the Limiting Value of Ratios of Consecuative Primes...

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• Subject: [mg88467] Question on the Limiting Value of Ratios of Consecuative Primes...
• From: "Richard Palmer" <rhpalmer at gmail.com>
• Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 06:38:53 -0400 (EDT)

Is there some analytic limit to the ratio of consecuative primes?  The
expression  Limit[Prime[i]/Prime[i+1],{i,->Infinity}] returns unevaluated.
Plotting Table[ Prime[i]/Prime[i+1],{i,1,20000}] shows a lot of structure
with a minimum of 3/5.

-- 
Richard Palmer