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Find Counterexamples (Posted on 2016-07-06)

There was once a conjecture that every odd number except 1 could be written as the sum of a power of 2 and a prime.

Examples:
3=2⁰+2
99=2⁵+67

Find the counterexamples less than 1000.

Show there are an infinite number of counterexamples.

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	Subject	Author	Date
	computer solution to part 1	Charlie	2016-07-06 10:12:59

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