[105759] in Cypherpunks
Re: More Goldbach's Conjecture
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mok-Kong Shen)
Fri Nov 20 05:00:48 1998
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1998 10:08:16 +0100
From: Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@stud.uni-muenchen.de>
To: Jim Choate <ravage@EINSTEIN.ssz.com>
CC: Cypherpunks Distributed Remailer <cypherpunks@EINSTEIN.ssz.com>
Reply-To: Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@stud.uni-muenchen.de>
Jim Choate wrote:
>
> Well there are two more definitions, from the same book [1], that are not
> equivalent:
>
> pp. 335
>
> For all natural numbers x, if x is even, non-zero, and not 2, then there
> exist prime numbers y and z such that x is the sum of y and z.
>
> pp. 673
>
> ...every even number, n>6 (it at least takes care of my question about 4),
> is the sum of two odd primes.
> [1] VNR Concise Encyclopedia of Mathematics
Evidently there is a printing error. 'n>6' should read 'n>=6'. Then
they are equivalent (if one considers 4 = 2 + 2 to be known).
M. K. Shen
