My Calender must be off, I didn't realize that it was April 1st
already.
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>From: "Kevin Edge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 16:47:51 GMT
>Subject: Mersenne: The EDGE CONJECTURE
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>THE EDGE CONJECTURE
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>There are a finite number of primes.
>
>All the proofs that there are an infinite number of primes, are based
>on the rather rash and unsupported assumption that numbers behave in
>the same way for enormous numbers as they do for tangible everyday
>numbers. This is clearly ridiculous as no one has seen, comprehended
>and become familiar with a really huge number, in its wild
>unabbreviated state, to be able to verify its behaviour under the
>basic mathematical operations such as addition, division etc.
>
--------------------- SNIP --------------------------
>The rest of you are free to continue your vain search for an ever
>larger prime, beyond which you always know that there are more.
>Personally, I will continue to contribute, but with the higher, more
>concrete, goal of helping to find THE FINAL PRIME NUMBER.
>
>#\o \
># ) |
>#/o /
>
>I have a brilliant proof of the above, but my email software does not
>support margins.
>
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>Kevin Edge - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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