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No. 2 is even and cannot be written as a sum of 2 prime numbers.

For even numbers greater than 2, this is the Goldbach conjecture, one of the best known conjectures. It has been shown to hold true up to 4*10^18 but has not been proved.

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No. For an odd number, usually you would need to add at least three prime numbers.The Goldbach conjecture states that every EVEN number can be written as the sum of two prime numbers. This conjecture hasn't been proved or disproved so far, but many even numbers have been checked, and so far, it seems to be true.

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