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- From: bhonsle@bhonsle.iss.nus.sg (Shailendra K Bhonsle)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: Can you prove it?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug24.030309.25219@nuscc.nus.sg>
- Date: 24 Aug 92 03:03:09 GMT
- References: <1992Aug20.055633.19046@nuscc.nus.sg> <1992Aug20.210400.1773@wri.com>
- Sender: bhonsle@bhonsle (Shailendra K Bhonsle)
- Organization: Institute of Systems Science, NUS, Singapore
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- In article <1992Aug20.210400.1773@wri.com>, roach@bikini.wri.com (Kelly Roach) writes:
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- |> We need q prime to get (4). We didn't really
- |> need p to be prime nor q<p for the proof to work. We
- |> just need p to be odd (for the trivial case q=2).
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- This simple proof is also correct, nice to see the observation that p needn't be prime as well as q needn't be less than p.
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- Thanks.
- Shailendra
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