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#1 2006-10-05 01:43:37
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Breaking the record of Graham's number
Let n=6->6->6->6->6
Let n1 equal to the smallest number apart from zero and one which is a perfect square, cube, fourth, fifth, sixth and nth power.
n1+1 is a prime number.
Proof:- n1-1 is divisible to almost any prime number, because of the fact that (a^n-b^n) is divisible by (a-b).
This is a better proof than Graham's Number for Ramsay theory, he he 
Such numbers are enormously large.
For example, the smallest number apart from zero and one which is a perfect square, cube, fourth, fifht and sixth power is 1152921504606846976.
(That is how many bytes make an exabyte).
And extrapolating this to tenths power, the result is 3.940842x10^758, a number containing 759 digits.
If this is extrapolated to 20th power, the result is 2.125219 x 10^70077543 approximately, containg 70077544 digits.
And when this extrapolated to 1000th power, the result is 10^10^433, much much larger than a googolplex 
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#2 2006-10-05 01:56:28
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Re: Breaking the record of Graham's number
Cool. The modern age just keeps coming up with new things.
#3 2006-10-05 02:07:47
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Re: Breaking the record of Graham's number
Prime numbers are never-ending. It is very very difficult to prove that n1+1 is a composite number, well impossible, because of this property i mentioned. However, Graham's Number is a shame to mathematics and to Ramsay theory. The proof isn't sound at all, as said by some other mathematicians. Hence, I was interested in giving a more difficult aspect to prove or disprove by counter-proof.
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#4 2006-10-05 02:12:47
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Re: Breaking the record of Graham's number
Let n=6->6->6->6->6
Let n1 equal to the smallest number apart from zero and one which is a perfect square, cube, fourth, fifth, sixth and nth power.
n1+1 is a prime number.
Proof:- n1-1 is divisible to almost any prime number, because of the fact that (a^n-b^n) is divisible by (a-b).
I don't understand your 6->6->6->6 notation.
I also don't see how stating n1-1 is divible by almost any prime number proves n1+1 is prime.
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#5 2006-10-05 14:43:25
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Re: Breaking the record of Graham's number
Ricky,
the arrow in the notation denotes John Conway's chained arrow notation which is much much larger than knuth's up-arrow notation.
If n-1 is divisible by almost all prime numbers, n+1 should be prime.
Thats a hypothetic conclusion.
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#6 2006-10-05 15:47:52
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If n-1 is divisible by almost all prime numbers, n+1 should be prime.
Thats a hypothetic conclusion.
By hypothetic, do you mean one that remains to be unproven?
And what is meant by most?
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#7 2006-10-05 18:37:59
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Yes, hypothetic is because, it is next to impossible to prove.
There already exists a proof that (a^n-b^n) is divisible by (a-b).
Therefore, I used the word 'most'.
Like for example, 63 is divisible by 3, 7.
4095 has many prime factors.
These are numbers of the kind I have mentioned in my post #1.
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#8 2007-05-22 03:53:56
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I'm pretty sure the reason why people have disclaimed Graham's number is because it is the upper bound to a (rather hairy) problem in Ramsey Theory, the lower bound having been identified as 6 by the same people that "discovered" the upper bound.
As one of these people said, "there's room for improvement".
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#9 2007-05-23 22:33:57
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Re: Breaking the record of Graham's number
ganesh wrote:
Ricky,
the arrow in the notation denotes John Conway's chained arrow notation which is much much larger than knuth's up-arrow notation.
In fact, The chained-arrow notation here is pretty huge, although I'm not sure I really got the concept of the notation in full.
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