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    Verification of the Firoozbakht conjecture for primes up to four quintillion

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    If pkp_k is the k-th prime, the Firoozbakht conjecture states that the sequence (pk)1/k(p_k)^{1/k} is strictly decreasing. We use the table of first-occurrence prime gaps in combination with known bounds for the prime-counting function to verify the Firoozbakht conjecture for primes up to four quintillion (4Γ—1018)(4\times10^{18}).Comment: 6 pages, 1 tabl
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