2025-04-01

The occurrence of twin primes does not follow an exponential pattern in relation to their position in the twin prime sequence. Instead, it is believed that twin primes become less frequent as numbers increase, following a distribution that can be described by the twin prime conjecture. This conjecture suggests that there are infinitely many twin primes, but does not imply that they appear at an exponential rate. Instead, the density of twin primes tends to decrease, and their distribution is more closely related to the general distribution of prime numbers rather than an exponential function.

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The occurrence of twin primes does not follow an exponential pattern in relation to their position in the twin prime sequence. Instead, it is believed that twin primes become less frequent as numbers increase, following a distribution that can be described by the twin prime conjecture. This conjecture suggests that there are infinitely many twin primes, but does not imply that they appear at an exponential rate. Instead, the density of twin primes tends to decrease, and their distribution is more closely related to the general distribution of prime numbers rather than an exponential function.
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I plotted the logarithm of the first $n$ twin primes and noticed that they form an approximately logarithmic curve. Here is the plot up to 1000 and here is a plot up to 200,000

The red curves represent logarithmic functions derived through the least squares fitting technique, and they appear to align remarkably well with the data. Unfortunately, I lack the time and computational resources to delve into the behavior of the coefficients of the fitting logarithmic curve. Nonetheless, I will provide the values for three of the curves:

对于$n = 1000$,函数可以表示为:$f(x) = 0.6815857245894931 + 1.4145564491070595 \ln(x)$。

$n = 75,000: f(x) = 2.0738728912304074 + 1.2071826228826743 \cdot \ln(x)$

$n = 200,000: f(x) = 2.304380281352694 + 1.1832161536652268 \cdot \ln(x)$

It's difficult to determine the limit of this series without performing additional calculations, but I'm truly curious about its convergence. Unfortunately, I don't have the time to delve deeper into this right now, so I hope others will find it intriguing.

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