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

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Choate)
Thu Nov 19 11:19:16 1998

From: Jim Choate <ravage@EINSTEIN.ssz.com>
To: cypherpunks@EINSTEIN.ssz.com (Cypherpunks Distributed Remailer)
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 10:07:26 -0600 (CST)
Reply-To: Jim Choate <ravage@EINSTEIN.ssz.com>

Forwarded message:

> Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 11:01:31 -0500
> From: Ray Arachelian <sunder@brainlink.com>
> Subject: Re: Goldbach's Conjecture - a question about prime sums of odd 
>  numbers...

> 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.

Shit! I wasn't even thinking of negatives....

Thanks.


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