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- From: rags@triples.math.mcgill.ca (Robert A. G. Seely)
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- Subject: Re: Philosophy of Pi
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- Date: 18 Dec 92 20:49:29 GMT
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- In article <DREIER.92Dec18094157@durban.berkeley.edu> dreier@durban.berkeley.edu (Roland Dreier) writes:
- ove.
- >
- > ..., it is a very open question as to whether every integer
- >appears in the decimal expansion of Pi. This is called the Goldbach
- >conjecture, and I'm not aware of any real progress toward a solution.
- >--
- >Roland Dreier dreier@math.berkeley.edu
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- Goldbach Conjecture: Every even no is the sum of (odd) primes.
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- How does this relate to the above? (What am I missing here?)
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