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Can every even integer greater than 2 be written as the sum of two primes?

 Apr 15, 2015

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This is known as Goldbach's conjecture and is as yet unknown.  This and the other questions on primes nearby are all, as yet, unknown see http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Prime_numbers.html for a list of these and more.

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 Apr 15, 2015
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This is known as Goldbach's conjecture and is as yet unknown.  This and the other questions on primes nearby are all, as yet, unknown see http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Prime_numbers.html for a list of these and more.

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Alan Apr 15, 2015

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