[105739] in Cypherpunks
Goldbach's Conjecture
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Choate)
Thu Nov 19 19:46:17 1998
From: Jim Choate <ravage@EINSTEIN.ssz.com>
To: cypherpunks@EINSTEIN.ssz.com (Cypherpunks Distributed Remailer)
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:34:01 -0600 (CST)
Reply-To: Jim Choate <ravage@EINSTEIN.ssz.com>
If we go with the flow and exclude 1 (so we don't have to rewrite all our
theorems) and assume that all even numbers greater than 2 can be represented
as a sum of two prime factors we have a problem...
How does one sum 4?
2 + 2?
We certainly can't use 3 + 1. If we allow repetition *and* the number 2 as a
prime then all even numbers can be written as a string of 2's summed
appropriately.
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