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Three-Digit Primes within a Prime

Posted: October 6, 2025

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Let abc be a 3-digit positive integer. Find the number of such integers where ab, bc, and abc are all prime numbers. For example, 373 is a prime number and 37 and 73 are also prime numbers. Therefore 373 is one of these three-digit numbers.

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