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Mathematicians have discovered another property of primes
As well as being divisible only by one and themselves, primes are unlikely to end in the same digit as the previous prime number.
Erica Klarreich has been writing about mathematics and science for more than a decade. She has a doctorate in mathematics from Stony Brook University and is a graduate of the Science Communication Program at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her work has been reprinted in “The Best Writing on Mathematics 2010” and “The Best Writing on Mathematics 2011.