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Representing natural numbers as sums of distinct prime powers
I am investigating whether every natural number $n > 18$ can be represented as a sum $p_1^{m_1} + \dots + p_k^{m_k}$, where $p_1, \dots, p_k$ are distinct primes, and $m_1, \dots, m_k$ are distinct ...
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Prove A Skipping Prime Conjecture For Rio?
I am writing a paper to accompany a Short Communication I plan to give in Rio this August. The paper regards work on jumping primes, a project on which Jose Brox has been working with me. I was going ...
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Playing leapfrog with primes
In connection with how primes jump (How do these primes jump?),
I consider the following game.
Let $R$ be a finite set of positive integers. For this question, I content myself with $R$ being the $k$ ...
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Avoiding multiples of $p$
Let $p$ be a prime number and $P=\{1,2,...,p-1\}$
In how many ways we can sum all the elements of $P$ in such a way that we will reach a multiple of $p$
only when we sum the last summand?
For ...