Prime quadruplet 23620, 152141, 1028789, 7188960, 51672312, 381226246, 2873279651 . The constant representing the sum of the reciprocals of all prime quadruplets, Brun's constant for prime quadruplets, denoted by "B", is the sum of the reciprocals of all prime quadruplets: with value: This constant should not be confused with the Brun's constant for cousin primes, prime pairs of the form ("p", "p" + 4), which is also written as "B". The prime quadruplet {11, 13, 17, 19} is alleged to appear on the Ishango bone although this is disputed. Excluding the first prime quadruplet, the shortest possible distance between two quadruplets {"p",
Prime number is a consequence of Fermat's theorem on sums of two squares, which states that an odd prime formula_20 is expressible as the sum of two squares, formula_187, and therefore factorizable as formula_188, exactly when formula_20 is 1 mod 4. Not every ring is a unique factorization domain. For instance, in the ring of numbers formula_190 (for integers formula_34 and formula_35) the number formula_193 has two factorizations formula_194, where neither of the four factors can be reduced any further, so it does not have a unique factorization. In order to extend unique factorization to a larger class of rings, the notion