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I know that in 1952 Jitsuro NaguraJitsuro Nagura was able to show that there is always a prime between $k$ and $\frac{6k}{5}$ for $k > 24$.

At what point would an improvement on Nagura's result be interesting? If an approach could show for example that for any $k$, there is a specific value $X$ which could be calculated such that for all $x \ge X$, there is a prime between $kx$ and $(k+1)x$, would this be interesting?

Or, does the Prime Number Theorem provide us enough insight that short of a proof of Legendre's Conjecture, elementary results are not very interesting at this time?

I know that in 1952 Jitsuro Nagura was able to show that there is always a prime between $k$ and $\frac{6k}{5}$ for $k > 24$.

At what point would an improvement on Nagura's result be interesting? If an approach could show for example that for any $k$, there is a specific value $X$ which could be calculated such that for all $x \ge X$, there is a prime between $kx$ and $(k+1)x$, would this be interesting?

Or, does the Prime Number Theorem provide us enough insight that short of a proof of Legendre's Conjecture, elementary results are not very interesting at this time?

I know that in 1952 Jitsuro Nagura was able to show that there is always a prime between $k$ and $\frac{6k}{5}$ for $k > 24$.

At what point would an improvement on Nagura's result be interesting? If an approach could show for example that for any $k$, there is a specific value $X$ which could be calculated such that for all $x \ge X$, there is a prime between $kx$ and $(k+1)x$, would this be interesting?

Or, does the Prime Number Theorem provide us enough insight that short of a proof of Legendre's Conjecture, elementary results are not very interesting at this time?

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