From: ichudov@Algebra.COM (Igor Chudov @ home)
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1998 04:32:55 +0800
To: ravage@EINSTEIN.ssz.com (Jim Choate)
Subject: Re: Goldbach's Conjecture - a question about prime sums of odd (fwd)
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Jim Choate wrote:
> 
> 
> Forwarded message:
> 
> > Subject: Re: Goldbach's Conjecture - a question about prime sums of odd
> > Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 10:53:50 -0600 (CST)
> > From: ichudov@Algebra.Com (Igor Chudov @ home)
> 
> > I have no idea where you heard it, but primes are numbers greater than 1,
> > by definition.
> 
> Actualy a prime is any number which has no multiplicitave factors other than
> itself and 1.
> 
> Does that mean negatives can't be prime numbers?
> 
> So, -3 breaks down to:
> 
> -3 * 1 = -3; 3 * -1 would be another set of factors so negatives can't be
> primes in the strictest sense.

Negatives are not primes by definition.

	- Igor.