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Timothy Chow
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The more natural conjecture, that every even number arises as the difference of two primes, was asked on math.SE years ago. That question remains open, and I have a hard time imagining that restricting to squares makes the problem any more tractable.


EDIT: The conjecture that every even number is the difference of two primes is apparently sometimes called Maillet's conjecture.

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