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Article #3605Re: Spacing of Prime Numbers
From: Ed Falk
Date: Sun, 24 May 1987 06:39
Date: Sun, 24 May 1987 06:39
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In article <1938@husc6.UUCP>, greg@endor.harvard.edu (Greg) writes: > > Prove there is a sequence of at least one million > > consecutive integers, none of whom are prime. > > 1000001! + n is divisible by n for 2<=n<=1000001. I'm confused. How does this prove that there's a million consecutive composite numbers? All I see is that there's a composite number with a million consecutive factors. -- -ed falk, sun microsystems, falk@sun.com terrorist, cryptography, DES, drugs, cipher, secret, decode, NSA, CIA, NRO.
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!husc6!hao!ames!oliveb!sun!falk From: falk@sun.uucp (Ed Falk) Newsgroups: sci.crypt Subject: Re: Spacing of Prime Numbers Message-ID: <19612@sun.uucp> Date: Sun, 24-May-87 02:39:19 EDT Article-I.D.: sun.19612 Posted: Sun May 24 02:39:19 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 24-May-87 08:46:36 EDT References: <1392@phred.UUCP> <6212@ism780c.UUCP> <1938@husc6.UUCP> Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc. - Mtn View, CA Lines: 13 Summary: I'm confused