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Re: [spam 03.92/10.00 -pobox] Re: Goldbach's Conjecture - a question about prime sums of odd numbers...




At 12:20 AM 11/19/98 -0600, Eric Cordian wrote:
>> Is there any work on whether odd numbers can always be represented as the
>> sum of primes? 
>
>Goldbach originally suggested that all numbers greater than two could be
>expressed as the sum of three primes, if one tossed in 1 as a prime
>number.  Euler pointed out that this was equivalent to even numbers
>greater than two being expressed as the sum of two primes. 
>
>This seemed a somewhat cleaner formulation, and it was adopted.

well, you can express any odd number >= 7 as
the sum of 3 + an even number, so if Goldbach's conjecture is true,
then three primes are enough for the odd natural numbers
except 1, which is a special case, and 3 and 5 which are prime anyway.
				Thanks! 
					Bill
Bill Stewart, [email protected]
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