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Re: prove no largest prime
Posted:
Jul 11, 2012 7:16 AM
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Graham Cooper wrote:
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> On Jul 9, 11:44 pm, Frederick Williams <freddywilli...@btinternet.com>
> wrote:
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> > It is not the case for all n, that if you multiply the first n primes
> > together and add one, that the result is a prime.
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> It's NOT?
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> What's a prime factor of p1*p2*p3*p4..pn +1?
That is unanswerable unless we know what n is.
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