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If a and d are relatively prime positive integers, the arithmetic sequence beginning with a and increasing by d, i.e., a, a + d, a + 2d, a + 3d, a + 4d, ..., contains infinitely many prime numbers. This fact is known as Dirichlet's Theorem on Arithmetic Progressions, which had been conjectured by Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777 - 1855) and was proved by Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (1805 - 1859) in 1837.
For example, the arithmetic sequence beginning with 2 and increasing by 3, i.e.,
2, 5, 8, 11, 14, 17, 20, 23, 26, 29, 32, 35, 38, 41, 44, 47, 50, 53, 56, 59, 62, 65, 68, 71, 74, 77, 80, 83, 86, 89, 92, 95, 98, ... ,
contains infinitely many prime numbers
2, 5, 11, 17, 23, 29, 41, 47, 53, 59, 71, 83, 89, ... .
Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to write a program to find the nth prime number in this arithmetic sequence for given positive integ
Dirichlet‘s Theorem on Arithmetic Progressions
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