Why should I switch to Python? - Infinity of Primes

[Greg Ewing]

"David C. Ullrich" wrote:
> 
>     There's nothing non-constructive about the traditional
> proof of the infinitude of the sequence of primes - given
> a sequence of primes it _constructs_ a prime not on the
> list.

Um, no it doesn't - it constructs a number which is
*either* prime *or* divisible by some other prime bigger
than the one you started with.

If someone actually came up with a formula for constructing
primes, it would be rather large news -- isn't that one of
the Big Unsolved Problems?

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