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Junior Section - Round 2 Solutions - SMO Singapore Mathematical Olympiad 2008

This document discusses properties of prime numbers and sums of primes. It shows that the number of primes among sums is close to the maximum possible value, and that this implies the sum of two distinct positive integers cannot be a prime.

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Junior Section - Round 2 Solutions - SMO Singapore Mathematical Olympiad 2008

This document discusses properties of prime numbers and sums of primes. It shows that the number of primes among sums is close to the maximum possible value, and that this implies the sum of two distinct positive integers cannot be a prime.

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