🧮 Math

A simple puzzle about even numbers has been unsolved since 1742.

Goldbach's conjecture says every even number greater than 2 is the sum of two primes, like 10 = 3 + 7. Computers have checked it up to 4 × 10¹⁸, but nobody has proved it's always true.

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