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Primes p for which p − 2 has an odd number of prime factors

Prove that for infinitely many primes p, the number p − 2 has an odd number of prime factors counted with multiplicity.

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10 "url": "https://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/greenbj/papers/open-problems.pdf#problem.64",
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