Re: PROOF THAT THERE ARE AN INFINITY OF PRIMES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Rouben Rostamian wrote:
In article <pcXIf.45051$d5.201459@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
NILS BÖRJESSON <borje@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

PROOF THAT THERE ARE AN INFINITY OF PRIMES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I WILL NOW CONSTRUCT TWO NEW PRIMES:

11 2 1:S
11111 5 1:S

Your CAPS-LOCK key works real well but your math doesn't:

11111

He should definitely describe his proof better, but what he said in
that part of the proof is not incorrect. Every number can be devided by
a prime number (lema that is also needed in Euclid's proof that there
are infinitely many numbers), and therefore, there is a prime that
divides 11 and a prime that divides 11111. Because 2, 5, 11 and 11111
are all coprimes, the prime A that divides 11 and the prime B that
divides 11111 are two new primes.

However, I wonder how he proves that this procedure will always
generate numbers that are not divisible by the existing primes in the
list. It was already pointed out that if you start with 2 and 3, this
doesn't work on the first step. What makes it work with 2 and 5?
--
Rouben Rostamian

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