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by schoen
3498 days ago
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While that's very clever, it doesn't accurately present Euclid's argument because the haiku is Top prime's divisors'
product (plus one)'s factors are...?
Q.E.D., bitches!
This doesn't include Euclid's argument about multiplying all of the primes, mistakenly referring instead to "top prime's divisors".The "top prime's divisors' product" would be equal to the top prime itself, so Randall's haiku asks "if there is a largest prime p, what are the divisors of (p+1)?" which doesn't create any contradiction (it could simply be divisible by various smaller primes!). Maybe we should amend it to Take factorial
of top prime, then add one: what
are the divisors?
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