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“A FREE FRENCH SCIENTIST” appears to use the word ‘probability’ in an unconventional sense. The probability that a number in the neighbourhood of a large number A should be a perfect square tends to ; this is an obvious property of numbers in the neighbourhood A; it is not a matter of intervals. A “Free French Scientist's” expression does not give the probability of a number in the neighbourhood of a large number N2 being prime, but the average value of the probabilities between pn and (pn + 1)2.
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CHERWELL Number of Primes and Probability Considerations. Nature 148, 695 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/148695b0
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