SOME FORMS OF COMPOSITE NUMBERS
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This research was to examine some forms of composite numbers by using the Nelsen’s proof (2021), which has previously shown that was composite for
. The results reveal that for
,
1) if was even, then and
were composite,
2) if were odd and
, then
was composite.
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