Re: Goldbach's Conjecture - the various definitions (fwd)

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Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 06:03:43 +0100 From: "Albert P. Franco, II" Subject: Re: Goldbach's Conjecture - the various definitions

Math works because in most (we would like to say all...) cases it is WELL DEFINED. Subtle differences in the definition of a problem can drastically alter the solution.

Absolutely.

Goldbach's Conjecture states that any EVEN OR ODD number can be expressed by a sum of three primes.

No, Goldbach's says specificaly EVEN numbers.

lose sight of the domains of the two statements. He never stated that ODD numbers could be expressed as sums of TWO primes.

Nobody said he did.

It is very important to get all of the information assembled before running

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