Sophie Germain 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 Sophie Germain prime is a prime number such that is also prime. The corresponding prime is termed a safe prime.


Testing

The ID of the sequence in the Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences is A005384