Twin Prime Proof Erroneous

Posted by michael on Saturday May 31, 2003 @06:26AM from the 2+2=5 dept.

mindriot writes "The fairly recent perceived breakthrough in prime number theory regarding twin primes, as mentioned on slashdot, is apparently not quite perfect: 'On April 23rd, Andrew Granville of the Universite de Montreal and K. Soundararajan of the University of Michigan found a technical difficulty buried in one of the arguments in the preprint of Goldston and Yildrim. The main issue is that some quantities which were believed to be small error terms are actually the same order of magnitude as the main term. For now this difficulty remains unresolved.' A more detailed technical description is also available."

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i dunno man by SweetAndSourJesus · 2003-05-31 06:37 · Score: 0, Troll

How much more do we need to know about the causes for cancer or AIDS?

Shouldn't we be looking for the cures instead?

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Formulajamboree v2.0 (NEW with correct formatting) by AvantLegion · 2003-05-31 07:26 · Score: 0, Troll

Oh yeah? Well, *I* can prove that women are evil!
WOMEN = TIME x MONEY (Logical statement that women require time AND money - statement only TRUE when both "time" and "money" are TRUE)
TIME = MONEY ("Time is Money")
WOMEN = (MONEY)^2
MONEY = sqrt(EVIL) ("Money is the Root of all evil)
WOMEN = (sqrt(EVIL))^2
WOMEN = EVIL