Wolstenholme prime

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This article defines a property that can be evaluated for a prime number. In other words, every prime number either satisfies this property or does not satisfy this property.
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Definition

A Wolstenholme prime is a prime number such that:

In other words, it satisfies a stronger version of Wolstenholme's theorem, which is true for all primes greter than 3.

Occurrence

Initial examples

Currently there are only two known Wolstenholme primes: 16843 and 2124679.