Template:Did you know nominations/Sophie Germain's identity

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The result was: promoted by AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 09:41, 18 July 2023 (UTC)
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• ... that multiple mathematics competitions have asked whether numbers of the form $n^4+4^n$ can be prime, answered negatively (for $n>1$) using Sophie Germain's identity? Source: Engel 1998, https://books.google.com/books?id=IJLzBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA121
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Anne Mills Archbold
  • Comment: The mathematics formulas cause the usual scripts that calculate readable prose size to miss much of the text of the article: they fail to count any text that follows a block formula within the same paragraph. By my calculations, the readable prose size (not counting formulas, headings, and references) is approximately 2200 bytes.

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