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Comment by andrewla

Your post says "No prime divides the new number, so you've just produced a new prime." What, exactly, do you mean by "produced"? You say produced, not "established the existence of", so it makes it sound like you are assuming a constructive argument.

Do you mean that the number you've produced is prime? Or do you mean that "the number you have computed is either prime or has a prime factors not in your list of primes, therefore, by computing the factorization of that number, you produce a new prime"?

The former statement is demonstrably false, the latter statement is true. Others have read your proof as stating the former, and I argue that the latter is a generous but not unreasonable interpretation of your phrasing.

parent andrewla 8 years ago

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