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The largest prime that cannot be the central number in a 3-by-3 prime magic square. [Rivera]

Théorie des Nombres by Adrien-Marie Legendre contained 859 large quarto pages and was the first text to record the observation that there seemed to be a curious connection between the prime counting function and the logarithm function.

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