[105703] in Cypherpunks
Re: Goldbach's Conjecture - a question about prime sums of odd
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Igor Chudov @ home)
Thu Nov 19 12:13:46 1998
To: sunder@brainlink.com (Ray Arachelian)
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 10:53:50 -0600 (CST)
Cc: ichudov@Algebra.Com, ravage@einstein.ssz.com, cypherpunks@einstein.ssz.com,
cypherpunks@manifold.algebra.com
In-Reply-To: <365440DB.A689C02@brainlink.com> from "Ray Arachelian" at Nov 19, 98 11:01:31 am
From: ichudov@Algebra.Com (Igor Chudov @ home)
Reply-To: ichudov@Algebra.Com (Igor Chudov @ home)
Ray Arachelian wrote:
>
>
> "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.
I have no idea where you heard it, but primes are numbers greater than 1,
by definition.
- Igor.
