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1998-11-19 - Re: Goldbach’s Conjecture - a question about prime sums of odd

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From: ichudov@Algebra.COM (Igor Chudov @ home)
To: sunder@brainlink.com (Ray Arachelian)
Message Hash: 0f95a96c07f239904586a916de61e1f0bf4ff6c4c64feef3d9bf6829d727b648
Message ID: <199811191653.KAA06166@manifold.algebra.com>
Reply To: <365440DB.A689C02@brainlink.com>
UTC Datetime: 1998-11-19 17:30:16 UTC
Raw Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1998 01:30:16 +0800

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From: ichudov@Algebra.COM (Igor Chudov @ home)
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1998 01:30:16 +0800
To: sunder@brainlink.com (Ray Arachelian)
Subject: Re: Goldbach's Conjecture - a question about prime sums of odd
In-Reply-To: <365440DB.A689C02@brainlink.com>
Message-ID: <199811191653.KAA06166@manifold.algebra.com>
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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.

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