# Can Anyone Spot the Error?

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**Created:** [September 10, 2004, 2:38am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/can-anyone-spot-the-error/122090 "2004-09-10T02:38:36Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 10, 2004, 2:38am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/can-anyone-spot-the-error/122090/1 "2004-09-10T02:38:36Z")

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The following is from an actual 1995 Boston Globe Artice:

> **Goldbach’s conjecture** , after a proposition penned by Prussian mathematician Christian Goldbach in 1742, holds that every even number can be expressed by the sum of two prime numbers (thus, 20 can be expressed by 9 and 11). It has never been fully proven.  
> [size=1]**(no url - the communists force non-boston student types to pay to see the full text)**[/size]

Can any of you spot the error in this article? It’s funny once you figure it out…for me it was funny at least 🙂

[size=4][color=blue][color=black]If you think you have the right answer, use the [/color]**[color=black]Spoiler tag[/color] ( [.spoiler=intro text]answer[./spoiler] [size=1](minus the . periods)[/size]** [/color][color=black]as to not ruin it for those who are trying to figure it out.[/color][/size]

[size=1]EDIT: You don’t need to know anything about Goldbach’s conjecture.[/size]

[size=1]EDIT2: The error is \*\*not \*\*that this was recently almost solved.[/size]