It's amazing. Just when I think Slashdot can't possibly find a subject I'm less interested in than Orbitz's decisions about what to promote to Mac users ... it does.

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/GoldbachConjecture.html

Goldbach's original conjecture (sometimes called the "ternary" Goldbach conjecture), written in a June 7, 1742 letter to Euler, states "at least it seems that every number that is greater than 2 is the sum of three primes" (Goldbach 1742; Dickson 2005, p. 421). Note that here Goldbach considered the number 1 to be a prime, a convention that is no longer followed. As re-expressed by Euler, an equivalent form of this conjecture (called the "strong" or "binary" Goldbach conjecture) asserts that all positive even integers >=4 can be expressed as the sum of two primes.

As well as the book, 99% of the posts on this topic are of the form "I have the REAL answer, it's ...."

YOU DO NOT HAVE THE REAL ANSWER. STFU ALREADY.

Advice for Slashdot readers: do not get nutritional / lifestyle advice from Slashdot. Do not get it from books hawked on Slashdot either.

hirez or gtfo

I have a fantastic tax preparation system: Mark Frenchell. And the best part is it was built using a very small company of only two people: Howard and Josephine Frenchell.

Indeed, this is the same guy. It is part of the tragicomedy of race relations that such a talented math popularizer could be so markedly racist. I too loved Prime Obsession. I reread it every couple of months. Someday I may understand the last chapter...

"Give and take over". What a wonderful description.

How do I rate this simultaneously +1 Informative and -600 Boring?

I hope my SENSITIVE FEMALE SIDE is wearing sensible LEATHER PUMPS!

If chess is so hard that WORLD CHAMPIONS frequently and regularly make dumb moves -- yes, that's what not playing perfectly is defined as -- then why should it attract any interest as a discipline at all? It's like wheelchair ballet.

As a GAME -- an opportunity for excitement, aggression, a way to humiliate your opponent -- sure, it makes sense to play chess. But so does poker. As a mathematical discipline -- we're outclassed as a species. We have no business studying chess anymore.

There is a wealth of scientific research about G dropping. For example:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000878.html

Unfortunately there is very little research into how zero gravity affects phonology. Time to lobby Congress for more funding,

It isn't suitable for ground to orbit vehicles, mostly because of environmental concerns.

The Novikov consistency principle asserts that if an event exists that would give rise to a paradox, or to any "change" to the past whatsoever, then the probability of that event is zero.

There have NEVER been lions in my fridge and there never will be.

Interesting; thanks for the food for thought. I have always held a bright line division between counterfeiting and digital "piracy" in my mind, and thus did not really understand why they were frequently linked in legislation. Now I understand a bit better.