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Old 11-22-2002, 12:59 AM
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Not my claim at all. Assuming that there are a finite # of primes leads to these conclusions, which leads to a contradiction. In practice, since the set of primes is not bounded, if we multiply the first N of them together and add one to the result, the result will often be divisible by a prime larger than the Nth prime - but my initial assumptions did not allow for such primes.
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