- Mathematical logic is a lot tougher when your translation fails to properly distinguish "any" and "every" and "some."
On 15 Oct 2001 07:18:43 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dr. Fairman) wrote: [ ... ] > 4.If you agree with item #3 (if not - please argue - why), it means that > you are also agree with the statement: > "every even is (in particular) sum of any two primes". > That's what you needed me to prove. Needed: "Every even number can be written as the sum of two primes" or For [each] even number S, there always exists two prime numbers K and L such that S= K+L. Stated by Fairman, as read by me (a native speaker of English), "If K and L are *any* two primes, and S is any even number, it is true that S = K+L ." That is true for arithmetic-modulo-2. Otherwise, not. -- Rich Ulrich, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pitt.edu/~wpilib/index.html ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list and remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES are available at http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ =================================================================
