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- From: bx304@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jeff Epler)
- Subject: Re: u(v^n)w prime puzzle
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- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 92 03:06:46 GMT
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- In a previous article, roach@bikini.wri.com (Kelly Roach) says:
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- > Prove or disprove: There are three non-empty
- > strings of digits u,v,w such that all the
- > numbers in
- > L = {u(v^n)w | n is a natural number}
- > = {uw, uvw, uvvw, uvvvw, uvvvvw, ...}
- > are prime numbers.
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- u, v="0". w in {"2","3","5","7","11",...}
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- Or does "0" for V count as empty?
- >
- >I know the solution to this puzzle. I think the
- >solution can be understood fairly easily by anyone that
- >has had a first course in number theory. See if you
- >can discover it.
-
- I expect that this was not what I was supposed to say...
- (I anxiously await the *real* answer...)
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