Lemoine's Conjecture

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Conjecture

Every odd integer $n$ such that $n > 5$ can be written as:

$2 p_1 + p_2$

where $p_1 \le p_2$ and both $p_1$ and $p_2$ are prime.


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Source of Name

This entry was named for Émile Michel Hyacinthe Lemoine.


Sources

p. 46: In fact, Hardy and Littlewood [4] listed as their Conjecture I: Every large odd number $n$ is the sum of a prime and the double of a prime.