Safe 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 prime number $\text{[math]}$ is termed a safe prime if $\text{[math]}$ is odd and $\text{[math]}$ is also a prime number.

The corresponding prime $\text{[math]}$ is termed a Sophie Germain prime.

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