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- From: dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter)
- Subject: Re: Finding a prime number
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- References: <4fnnfuINNib7@keats.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca> <4fteet$b7e@sun001.spd.dsccc.com> <1996Feb16.180234.114184@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
- Date: Sat, 17 Feb 1996 01:51:07 GMT
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- In article <1996Feb16.180234.114184@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> anh@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
- >
- > prime1*prime2*prim3*...*largest_prime_to_date + 1 ?
- >
- > I have not tried to see how long it would take to multiply a million or
- > whatever the number of primes known is.
- >
- > Anh
-
- The number of primes known is large. Actually nobody knows what primes are
- known. And there will be gaps between primen and primen+1 that certainly
- contain unknown primes.
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