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What is a conjecture? Give an example for it.

Sometimes a certain statement that we think is to be true but that is an educated guess based on observations. Such statements which are neither proved nor disproved are called conjectures (hypothesis). Mathematical discoveries often start out as conjectures.


Example: “Every even number greater than 4 can be written as sum of two primes” is a conjecture stated by Gold Bach.


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