• Mechaguana
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    1 year ago

    I was checking for counter examples and then I understood why this was upvoted

    • ladicius@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      If you find any counter example please let us know.

      Pretty sure some people would find it interesting.

      • lugal@sopuli.xyz
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        Let me try: to narrow down a bit, we take a subset of uneven numbers. We know that almost all prime numbers are even so lets pick prime numbers at random and see what happens:

        5+7=12 (even)

        3+11=14 (even)

        13+9=22 (even)

        2+2=4 (even)

        I’m out of ideas but maybe someone can take this approach and land somewhere.

      • letsgo@lemm.ee
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        Species 8472 has three legs. Three is an odd number. Four would be an odd number of legs for a member of Species 8472 to have. Three plus four is seven, which is odd (2x3+1). Two odd numbers can therefore add to an odd number.