Goldbach's Conjecture - a question about prime sums of odd

Igor Chudov @ home ichudov at Algebra.COM
Thu Nov 19 09:30:16 PST 1998



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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