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Statement

For every positive integer , there exists a sequence of consecutive integers all of which are positive. Thus, there exists a prime gap between consecutive primes that is greater than .

Proof

Let . Consider the integers . For each , is divisible by and strictly larger than , hence is composite. Further, the sequence has length .