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From: Archimedes Plutonium on 11 Aug 2010 17:14 sttscitrans(a)tesco.net wrote: (when the rudeness is snipped there is nothing left) The troubles began when L. Walker said Iain Davidson had a true proof: Mr. L. Walker, and here is Iain Davidson's attempt that you endorsed as true: sttscitr...(a)tesco.net wrote: > 1) A natural is prime if it has preceisly two distinct divisors > 2) Every natural >1 has at least one prime divisor > 3) GCD(m,m+1) = 1, for any natural m > 3) Assume pn is the last prime > 4) w = the product of all primes > 5) 3) => gcd(w,w+1) =1 => no prime divides w+1 > This contradicts 2) > 6) Therefore: Assumption 3 is false > - pn is not last prime Trouble is that L. Walker never pointed out that w+1 is divisible by w+1 and divisible by 1, and since none of the primes divides into w+1, that w+1 is necessarily a new prime. Hence there is no contradiction to 2) and hence no proof. So until L. Walker admits his mistake of approving a fake proof, we are just going to see more rudeness and a deterioration of math posting from the UK. Usually the people of UK are overly polite and deem our praise on their politeness, but I guess every barrel has its rotten apple. |