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Re:Fashionable Problems by ddxxdd on Monday December 23, 2019 @03:42AM (#21862284)
>Are there infinitely primes that differ by 2?

Pardon the digression, but the Twin Primes conjecture was proven by a Subway restaurant worker a few years ago.

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Re:Fashionable Problems by drchewbacca on Monday December 23, 2019 @09:41AM (#21863837)
I'm not sure, I'm not an expert, it says here the twin prime conjecture itself is still unproven.

"On April 17, 2013, Yitang Zhang announced a proof that for some integer N that is less than 70 million, there are infinitely many pairs of primes that differ by N."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_prime

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Re:Fashionable Problems by asah on Monday December 23, 2019 @05:02AM (#21862609)
https://www.google.com/search?q=Twin+Primes+conjecture+was+p...
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Re:Fashionable Problems by homonculus1 on Monday December 23, 2019 @02:09PM (#21866275)
It bears notice that the Subway worker, Yitang Zhang, had a math PhD from Purdue.
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