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You left out your "a largest prime." If N were indeed the largest prime then there would be no larger prime to divide into N!+1 and make it composite. In any
by jimhefferon 4y ago
You left out your "a largest prime." If N were indeed the largest prime then there would be no larger prime to divide into N!+1 and make it composite.
In any event it is a long way from wrong, IMHO. :-)
- eesmith 4y agoIf my construction doesn't work for all arbitrary primes then it won't be guaranteed to work for "a largest prime", which means it doesn't provide an example of one way "infinite" is treated in modern mathematics. (Remember, the original essay described a constructive requirement for "infinite" - “If you think there are infinitely many, write them all down.” I wanted to demonstrate how to think about infinity without that requirement.) If someone in New Zealand sends me a letter and it's delivered to neighbor, it's still delivered to the wrong house - even if it gets to me eventually.