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Goldbach's Prime Triangle — A Recreational Math Journey with an Introduction to Equidistant Primes

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Abstract: This article explores new ways of visualizing Goldbach’s conjecture based on certain underlying properties, notably prime numbers that are equidistant from a given integer n. These so-called equidistant primes play a major role in providing a different context and new perspective on the famous conjecture. The presented findings include two distinct methods for generating a graphical representation of the conjecture, combining the sequences of equidistant primes and those of all prime numbers. This specific representation reveals interesting symmetrical properties and is referred to as Goldbach’s Prime Triangle throughout this paper.

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