Sum of Primes

How many ways can the number 100,001 be written as the sum of two primes?


The answer is 0.

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2 solutions

Since 100001 100001 is odd, then one of the two primes must be even while the other is odd. Clearly one of them is 2 2 and so the other is 100001 2 = 9999 100001-2=9999 . But 9999 9999 is a composite number, hence, it can never be written as the sum of two primes.

Same logic!

Adarsh Kumar - 6 years, 6 months ago
Michael Yi
Dec 29, 2014

Because 100,001 is an odd number, one number must be even and other must be odd. The only even prime number is 2, thus the other prime must be 99,999.

Clearly 99,999 is divisible, thus there can be no ways 100,001 can be written as the sum of two primes.

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