Re: [Phys-l] Carmichael numbers agai

["John Clement" <clement@hal-pc.org>]

The original logic has the qualifier even which makes it correct.  Whether
it is a useful observation is another question.  Since all other primes are
odd, there are more odd Carmichael numbers than even ones.

John M. Clement
Houston, TX

> At 02:01 PM 5/17/2007,  E Muehleisen, you wrote:
>
> > ... If all Carmichael numbers are the product of three primes and 2
> > is a prime number,
> > it would seem that there is a large number of even Carmichael numbers???
>
> When I read this note, I thought, in passing, it might embody an
> error of logic.
> In tidying up my mail box, I was moved to look for a comparable false
> syllogism.
>
> This is all I could come up with.    I am fairly sure a better example
>   could be found though.
>
> "If all children are the product of two parents,
>     and
>    I am a parent
>        then....
> There is a large number of children of whom, I am the parent"  [??]