A tad more on Goldbach's...

I figure I'll drop a couple of more points on this since nobody else seems to
have twigged to them....

Goldbach's original conjecture is crap. There is NO way that 3 odd numbers
will ever equal an even number. Odd + Odd is Even. Even + Odd is Odd. Fermat
was a hell of a lot more charitable to the original assertion than I would
have been.

Goldbach's existing conjecture can be worded another way:

Any even number may be represented by the sum of 3 even numbers provided two
of the numbers are 1 less than a prime and we add 2.

It's obvious that an even number can always be the sum of other even
numbers, it's axiomatic. The question actualy is:

Is the set of even numbers whose members are one less than the corresponding
member of the primes sufficient, when added to 2, to sum to all the even
numbers.

As far as I can find nobody has written a lot on patterns of even numbers 1
less than the odds. There's not even a name for the set that I can find.

As to somebodies assertion that an odd number can be represented by the sum
of two odds, better study your math a tad better. Odd + Odd is *always*
Even, never Odd.

Happy Thanksgiving!


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At 5:03 PM -0800 11/23/98, Jim Choate wrote:
>I figure I'll drop a couple of more points on this since nobody else seems to
>have twigged to them....

Your reputation capital has already dropped so many points that I'm not
sure you _can_ drop a couple of more points.

Please take your bizarre theories about Goldbach's Conjecture to some
mathematics journals and see if you can get published. Writing dozens of
crankish articles about your theories about prime numbers, and tiling
triangles, and such is just plain eccentric.

(Eccentric curve cryptography?)

And basing big chunks of your argument on why 1 or 2 or whatever should or
should not be defined as prime is just plain sophistry.

Ditto for your bizarre theories about how electric fields work, about how
charges inside conducting spheres don't follow Gauss's Law, and other
crankish theories about electricity.

Give it a rest.

--Tim May

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Tim Writes to Jim Choate:

> Ditto for your bizarre theories about how electric fields work, about
> how charges inside conducting spheres don't follow Gauss's Law, and
> other crankish theories about electricity. 

Don't forget Mr. SQUID, which can read the registers on your
tamper-resistant smartcard from several miles away.  :)

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