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prime number for which no proper digit subsequence is prime

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These are the minimal primes . Below we will explain this more fully, list the minimal composites , and offer a few problems for you to solve. A surprising result from formal language theory is that every set of pairwise incomparable strings is finite [Lothaire83]. This means that from any set of strings we can find its minimal elements. Shallit left as a challenge to his readers the task of finding minimal sets for the primes in other radices, and for all the other classical sets (Mersenne primes , Fermat primes , ...).

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