How will a blank-slate AI first prove the infinitude of primes?
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Euclid's Proof
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Erdős's Proof
8%
Saidak's proof by construction
8%
Furstenburg's Topological Proof
7%
Euler's Proof
7%
Proof via inclusion–exclusion
7%
Proof using de Polignac's formula
7%
The incompressibility method / Information-theoretic

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There are several proofs of Euclid's theorem - the fact that there are infinitely many primes. This question resolves to whichever proof described on the Wikipedia page (at time of market creation) best captures the approach of the AI when it eventually does this.

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I expect something that human mathematicians would consider horribly inelegant that makes sense to the alien machine.

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