Sum of prime and semiprime conjecture

Importance: Medium ✭✭
Author(s): princeps
Subject: Number Theory
Keywords: prime semiprime
Recomm. for undergrads: no
Posted by: princeps
on: March 23rd, 2012
Conjecture   Every even number greater than $ 10 $ can be represented as the sum of an odd prime number and an odd semiprime .

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surely that's Chen's theorem

Every sufficiently large even number is the sum of either 2 primes or a prime and a semiprime.

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