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It is well known fact that it is very hard to prove Goldbach's strong conjecture but perhaps some weaker variations can be proved(or disproved) ,so my question is: Is it true that every even number greater than 10 can be represented as the sum of an odd prime number and an odd semiprime?

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    Have you seen Chen's theorem (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chen%27s_theorem) ? I don't know if that can be extended to just the prime + semiprime case, though2011-09-13
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    @yatima2975: That's probably as good an answer as this question will get here. (I was going to post it myself before I rechecked the comments.)2011-09-13
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    @yatima2975,Chen's theorem states for every sufficiently large even number while my question is more specific since it states for each even number greater than 10.....2011-09-13
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    pedja: It's apparent in yatima's comment that he knows that.2011-09-13
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    I wrote a small c++ program that verified the conjecture for all even numbers less than 600k and larger than 10. So perhaps it's true.2011-09-13
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    http://www.math.utoledo.edu/~jevard/Page015.htm Has some references regarding improvements on Chen's theorem.2011-09-13

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