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| From | moroney@world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney) |
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| Newsgroups | sci.math |
| Subject | Re: AP's stupid conjecture |
| Date | 2018-10-05 21:21 +0000 |
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eastside.erik@gmail.com writes: >On Friday, October 5, 2018 at 1:33:58 PM UTC-7, Archimedes Plutonium wrote: >> Alright, I have a brand new definition of Prime, that involves AP Columns. >> And it leaves a conjecture open. >Hey Archie! Look at your first column if P is prime: >P 0 >P-1 1 >P-2 2 >... >P-n n >... >Just for fun, divide both columns by anything, say m. You get >P/m - n/m n/m >Even is n/m is integer, P/m is NEVER integer. Your conjecture is TRIVIAL. >This whole "theory of New Era Primes" is not even wrong. Archie has stumbled across a variation of trial division to find primes. Instead of trying every number n from 2 to P/2 and seeing if n divides P evenly, he is trying every number n from 2 to P/2 and seeing if (P-n)/n divides evenly. However, whenever n divides P evenly, n divides (P-n) evenly, since (P-n)/n = P/n-n/n = P/n-1. The Sieve of Eratosthenes is more efficient as it only attempts division by already identified primes.
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Math has a new definition of what it means to be Prime// why the Riemann Hypothesis is total junk math Archimedes Plutonium <plutonium.archimedes@gmail.com> - 2018-10-04 14:33 -0700
Re: Math has a new definition of what it means to be Prime// why the Riemann Hypothesis is total junk math Archimedes Plutonium <plutonium.archimedes@gmail.com> - 2018-10-04 15:15 -0700
Outright Division and Reduce to Lowest Terms Conjecture in AP Columns Archimedes Plutonium <plutonium.archimedes@gmail.com> - 2018-10-05 13:33 -0700
Re: AP's stupid conjecture eastside.erik@gmail.com - 2018-10-05 13:58 -0700
Re: AP's stupid conjecture moroney@world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney) - 2018-10-05 21:21 +0000
can a prime or odd composite exist that has just a reduce to lowest term ? Re: Outright Division and Reduce to Lowest Terms Conjecture in AP Columns Archimedes Plutonium <plutonium.archimedes@gmail.com> - 2018-10-05 22:27 -0700
Re: Archimedes "Village Idiot" Plutonium flunked the Math Test of a lifetime-generation test moroney@world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney) - 2018-10-06 06:29 +0000
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