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This constructive version doesn't work, though. The "new prime" 2×3×5×7×11×13 + 1 actually equals 59×509.
by panic 11y ago
This constructive version doesn't work, though. The "new prime" 2×3×5×7×11×13 + 1 actually equals 59×509.
- makomk 11y agoAll of its prime factors are in fact new primes though - the constructive proof just requires you to use the prime factors of all the primes multiplied together, plus one.
- Dylan16807 11y agoRight, sorry, I should have said it gives you a new prime (or more), not that it is a new prime.