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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!caen!uwm.edu!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!litow
  2. From: litow@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Bruce E Litow)
  3. Newsgroups: sci.math
  4. Subject: prime factor question
  5. Date: 8 Oct 1992 15:10:22 GMT
  6. Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
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  13. Let p_1,...,p_n be the first n primes. Are there, say, n^(1/2) distinct
  14. prime factors among p_1 - 1, p_2 - 1,..., p_n - 1 ?
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  16. Bruce Litow
  17. Computing Services Division
  18. P.O.Box 413, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 53201
  19. 414 229 6431    litow@csd4.csd.uwm.edu
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