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Simplest Prime Generating Polynomials

The most famous, due to Euler (1772):

Slightly modified by Legendre (1798):

Another simple one due to Legendre was:

and yet another by Lengendre:

Degree 2

These are listed at Wolfram Mathworld's Prime Generating Polynomials page: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Prime-GeneratingPolynomial.html

Degree 3

Degree 4