and from this observation, conjectured that all odd numbers are the sum of a prime plus twice
a prime. This conjecture is a stronger version of the weak Goldbach
conjecture and has been verified up to (Corbit 1999).
The number of ways
to express
as
for
and
primes and ,
2, ... are 0, 0, 0, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 4, 2, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, ... (OEIS A046927).
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in "The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences."