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Even number of prime divisors
Source: Kvant Magazine No. 4 2022 M2696
3/8/2023
Does there exist a sequence of natural numbers
a
1
,
a
2
,
…
a_1,a_2,\ldots
a
1
,
a
2
,
…
such that the number
a
i
+
a
j
a_i+a_j
a
i
+
a
j
has an even number of different prime divisors for any two different natural indices
i
i{}
i
and
j
j{}
j
?From the folklore
Kvant
number theory