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From: bill@milford.UUCP (bill)
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Subject: Re: Can you prove/disprove this?
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> b)Anyone want to investigate values n for which the equation s(x) - x = n
> has no solutions? n=5 apparently is the only odd 'untouchable' number.
                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Whoops! I guess I forgot the definition of these 'untouchables', for
any prime x s(x) - x is obviously = 1; and there's a lot of other odd
numbers.