Disclaimer : the following reasoning is a physicist's one and as such may not be suitable for this website. Still it may give rise to potentially interesting insights so I ask it anyway. I stumbled upon an article whose abstract claims that for any sufficiently large $ x $ and any $ \delta>0.525 $, one has $\pi(x+x^{\delta})-\pi(x)\gg_{k}\dfrac{x^{\delta}}{\log^{k}x}$ where $\pi(y)$ is the number of primes less than or equal to the real number $y$. My idea is to make the rhs equal to 1, so that one would formally get : $ x^{\delta}\approx\log^{k}x $ Hence $ \delta\approx\dfrac{k\log\log x}{\log x} $ . As the latter quantity is maximal for $ x=1/e $ as can be easily checked by calculus, this leads, assuming $ k $ can be taken equal to 1, to the following conjecture : For any large enough $ x $, one has $ \pi(x+x^{1/e})-\pi(x)\geq 1 $ . Note that this is stronger than what can be obtained assuming RH, but weaker than Cramer's conjecture. My question is : is the considered conjecture supported by numerical computation ? Is there a better (hence "more rigorous") heuristics that leads to the same conclusion ?