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Re: Goldbach's Conjecture - a question about prime sums of odd

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ray Arachelian)
Thu Nov 19 11:13:45 1998

Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 11:01:31 -0500
From: Ray Arachelian <sunder@brainlink.com>
To: Igor Chudov <ichudov@algebra.com>
CC: Jim Choate <ravage@einstein.ssz.com>, cypherpunks@einstein.ssz.com,
        cypherpunks@manifold.algebra.com
Reply-To: Ray Arachelian <sunder@brainlink.com>

"Igor Chudov @ home" wrote:

> Well, take 11, for example, it cannot be repsesented as a sum of different
> primes. It cannot, pure and simple.

Bullshit: 7+5+(-1)=11.  Last I heard, negative numbers weren't excluded from 
being primes.  7 is different from 5, -1 is different from 7 and from 5.


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