Triangles from prime-difference chords on a circle
Question
Twenty points on a circle are labelled through . A chord is drawn between two points exactly when the difference of their labels is prime. How many triangles have all three sides among these chords?
Short answer
. For labels we need , and their sum all prime. A sum of two primes is an odd prime only if one of them is , so the gaps are with and twin primes: . Counting both orders and all valid starting labels gives .
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