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I was reading about super prime numbers in Wikipedia, nothing looks Unusual until i read this line.

every integer greater than 96 may be represented as a sum of distinct super-prime numbers.

i thought that every number greater than 96 has a unique sum of this numbers, but it's not true.
so what this line exactly means ?

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    $\begingroup$ You might like to review OEIS $\endgroup$ – Amzoti Mar 23 '13 at 0:30
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That statement talks about existence of a representation, and not uniqueness. That is, it is possible that a number $>96$ can be represented in more than one way as a sum of super-primes; but it can't occur that there is no such representation.

(Don't know much about this subject; just interpreting what's written in Wikipedia.)

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