wat is the largest prime number yet?

Answer 1

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn4438

http://www.math.utah.edu/~alfeld/math/largeprime.html

I just did a search on yahoo
"largest prime number"
Keep it in quotes. You'll find a lot of info.

There are more recent sites like this one.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_number#Location_of_the_largest_known_prime

Answer 2

hi there. Euclid from ancient Greece proved that there must be an infinite number of primes, so I guess that means that, strictly speaking, there is NO biggest prime number. however, as of yet, and because of the efficiency of the Lucas-Lehmer primality testing algorithm for Mersenne primes, the top 5 record (i.e. largest) primes have been of this type, the biggest being 2^(30402457) - 1. hope this helps.

Answer 3

There is no limit to the number of primes or composites. Whether you go till infinity, you will find many primes approaching infinity. That just means, there's no largest prime number!

Answer 4

Here is the website with the largest known primes to date listed one through ten. I would type them but they dint display right in the answer box:

http://primes.utm.edu/largest.html#largest

Answer 5

357686312646216567629137
seriously
there are different types of prime numbers but this is the largest that iss known

Answer 6

There is no 'largest' prime number, because you can keep counting infinitely and never come to the end of the number line.

Your question is unanswerable(well, kind of)

Answer 7

Not yet known

Answer 8

http://primes.utm.edu/largest.html