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Mathematical mysteries

Mathematical mysteries: the Goldbach conjecture

Every even number greater than 4 can be written as the sum of two odd primes - a simple statement, but still unproven today.

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Mathematical mysteries: Hailstone sequences

This problem is easy to describe but it is one of mathematics' unsolved problems.

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