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Old 03-29-2020, 01:31 PM   #768
Happy Monkey
I think this line's mostly filler.
 
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Originally Posted by monster View Post
about untouchable numbers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Untouchable_number

I just haven't figured out why they're special or needed a name
Just from the wiki, it appears that if one could prove that there was an odd untouchable number other than five, that would disprove "a slightly stronger version of the Goldbach conjecture", which is a thing I've heard the name of before.


So there's that.
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