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LSST - Legacy Survey of Space and Time.
This is why I pay taxes (to our alien overlords).
Posted by HeliumRat at 2025-06-23 01:38 AM | Reply
Told thee.
Posted by HeliumRat at 2025-06-22 10:05 PM | Reply
#8 Not you, "them". As in "they" (but not the gender "they").
I think they are saying because 4=1+1+1+1 and 2+2 and 2+1+1, you only have to look for primes in it's greatest common divisor, like 2?
I'm going to find this paper. A lot of times math like this goes beyond my pay grade but it's still fun to try to understand.
Posted by HeliumRat at 2025-06-22 10:00 PM | Reply
That should read "a != 0, b != 0". gcd means greatest common divisor.
Posted by HeliumRat at 2025-06-22 09:39 PM | Reply
Huh. Let a, b and c be integers with a0 and b0, and let d=gcd(a,b). If d does not divide c, then the linear Diophantine equation ax+by=c has no solution.
I'll have to take your word on that one.
Posted by HeliumRat at 2025-06-22 09:33 PM | Reply
Rum and ------ is up, comrade!
Posted by HeliumRat at 2025-06-21 12:58 AM | Reply
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LSST - Legacy Survey of Space and Time.
This is why I pay taxes (to our alien overlords).