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For any numbers $a$ and $b$ so that $a>b$ and $\text{gcd}(a, b)=1$, there exists a $c\in\mathbb{N^+}$ so that $a+bc$ is prime.

I've only just tested this out with a few numbers, but I'm curious as to what you guys have to say.

$$100+21\cdot3 \\97+96\cdot1 \\97+50\cdot2 \\482914+15435\cdot5 \\500009+500000\cdot4$$

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There is more than one $c$. There are infinitely many. See Dirichlet's theorem.

The proof requires some background in Analytic Number Theory, although.

What Dirichlet proved is that certain sum indexed by the primes $a+kb$ where $\gcd(a,b)=1$ and $k$ goes from $1$ to $\infty$ diverges. And if a sum divereges it must have infinitely many terms.