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Re:Infinite work is less work by daveFNbuck on Thursday July 11, 2019 @10:47AM (#20411905)
n!+1 can be prime, as primes can be divisible by 1. None of the n-1 numbers after n!+1 are prime.
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Re:Infinite work is less work by OscarCunningham on Thursday July 11, 2019 @11:37AM (#20412360)
Good point! But n-1 still gets arbitrarily large so the proof still works.
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