Wednesday, December 21, 2016

3000 digit prime number

I am playing around and discovered a possible prime number with more than 3000 digits:

2 ^ 10005 * 210 -19 [3015 digits] is probably prime to a certainty of 99.21875%.
I haven't verified this, but it is the largest possible prime number I personally have found.  Of course the world record has 22 million digits so this is nothing.

I will post bigger ones if I find them.

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2 ^ 10017 * 210 -17 [3018 digits] is probably prime to a certainty of 87.5%.
This is a huge number that start with 549143 and ends with 525103.
I turned down the certainty factor to speed up the process.  It takes about 15 seconds to check each candidate.  To verify this to 100% certainty could take hours, and I'm not interested in doing that right now.

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