Sophie Germain prime
A prime number![]()
is called Sophie Germain prime
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if is also prime.
The first few Sophie Germain primes are:
It is conjectured that there are infinitely many Sophie Germain primes,but (like the Twin Prime Conjecture![]()
) this has not been proven.A heuristic estimate for the number of Sophie Germain primes less than is , where is the twin prime constant.