Consecutive Integer

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by tutorphd » Tue Jul 24, 2012 3:52 pm
'consecutive integers' means separated by 1 like 14, 15, 16 ...
'conscutive even integers' means even, separated by two like -4, -2, 0, 2, 4, ....
'consecutive odd integers' means odd, separated by two like 13, 15, 17, 19, ...
'consecutive primes' means primes one after another without missing one like 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, ....

the numbers you wrote are 'evenly spaced numbers' or also 'arithmetic sequence', the first set has a step of +4, the second set has a step of +10
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by xgr3x » Tue Jul 24, 2012 7:30 pm
Thanks for explaining clearly. It really helped.