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From: franka@mmintl.UUCP
Newsgroups: sci.crypt
Subject: Re: Spacing of Prime Numbers
Message-ID: <2170@mmintl.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 8-Jun-87 22:16:36 EDT
Article-I.D.: mmintl.2170
Posted: Mon Jun  8 22:16:36 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 13-Jun-87 08:00:15 EDT
References: <28047@rochester.ARPA> <201000001@prism>
Reply-To: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams)
Organization: Multimate International, E. Hartford, CT.
Lines: 10
Keywords: induction
Summary: Picking a nit

In article <201000001@prism> billc@prism.UUCP writes:
|That means that 1000001! + n is not a prime.  Now that's for any of a
|million consecutive n's!  Thus we've created a string of one million
|composites. (This is the principle of mathematical induction.)

No, this is *not* the principle of mathematical induction.
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