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Article #1243Re: number theory question
From: bobs
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 00:00
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 00:00
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In article <6uj62q$fi8$1@news-1.news.gte.net>, aardwolf@gte.net wrote: > What can be said about the following propositions? > > 1) Given d = 2,3,... , there exist primes p and q with p-q=2d , q+2 > composite . > > 2) Given d = 1,2,..., there exist primes p and q with q-p=2d, q+2 > composite. > > Is either (1) or (2) a theorem, and if so, can you supply references? > If not, can they be proved? For each d, whether there exists primes p,q such that p-q = 2d is an open, unsolved problem. Of course it is true. We just have no proof. -----== Posted via Deja News, The Leader in Internet Discussion ==----- http://www.dejanews.com/rg_mkgrp.xp Create Your Own Free Member Forum
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109d8a,ed0512127dd6c0a0 X-Google-Attributes: gid109d8a,public X-Google-Thread: 107079,ed0512127dd6c0a0 X-Google-Attributes: gid107079,public X-Google-Thread: 10d29f,ed0512127dd6c0a0 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d29f,public X-Google-Thread: 10d67e,ed0512127dd6c0a0 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d67e,public From: bobs@rsa.com Subject: Re: number theory question Date: 1998/09/28 Message-ID: <6uo6tn$ci8$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> X-Deja-AN: 395682702 Approved: Daniel Grayson <dan@math.uiuc.edu>, moderator for sci.math.research References: <6uj62q$fi8$1@news-1.news.gte.net> X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/2.0 (compatible; MSIE 3.0B; Win32) X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x14.dejanews.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 204.167.112.129 Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion X-Article-Creation-Date: Mon Sep 28 14:36:38 1998 GMT Newsgroups: sci.math.num-analysis,sci.math.research,sci.math,aus.mathematics Originator: dan@orion.math.uiuc.edu