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To: dp0622; libwacker

“...can you sum up this article in a paragraph that makes sense to someone without a 180 IQ?”

Yes, I second that request.


37 posted on 10/12/2015 5:10:41 PM PDT by jocon307
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To: jocon307; MUDDOG
See my comment #5 and MUDDOG's comment #9.
42 posted on 10/12/2015 5:17:17 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: jocon307
Here is the meat...

"The abc conjecture refers to numerical expressions of the type a + b = c.

The statement, which comes in several slightly different versions, concerns the prime numbers that divide each of the quantities a, b and c.

Every whole number, or integer, can be expressed in an essentially unique way as a product of prime numbers—those that cannot be further factored out into smaller whole numbers:

for example, 15 = 3 × 5 or 84 = 2 × 2 × 3 × 7.

In principle, the prime factors of a and b have no connection to those of their sum, c.

But the abc conjecture links them together. It presumes, roughly, that if a lot of small primes divide a and b then only a few, large ones divide c."

45 posted on 10/12/2015 5:28:38 PM PDT by kanawa
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