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Lemoine's Conjecture

Last Updated : 20 Sep, 2022

Any odd integer greater than 5 can be expressed as a sum of an odd prime (all primes other than 2 are odd) and an even semiprime. A semiprime number is a product of two prime numbers. This is called Lemoine's conjecture
Examples :

7 = 3 + (2 × 2), 
where 3 is a prime number (other than 2) and 4 (= 2 × 2) is a semiprime number.
11 = 5 + (2 × 3) 
where 5 is a prime number and 6(= 2 × 3) is a semiprime number.
9 = 3 + (2 × 3) or 9 = 5 + (2 × 2)
47 = 13 + 2 × 17 = 37 + 2 × 5 = 41 + 2 × 3 = 43 + 2 × 2


 Below is the implementation of Lemoine's Conjecture:

Output : 
 

39 can be expressed as :
39 = 5 + (2 * 17)
39 = 13 + (2 * 13)
39 = 17 + (2 * 11)
39 = 29 + (2 * 5)

Time Complexity: O(n*(sqrt(n)+log(n)))
Auxiliary Space: O(n)

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