2006-10-13 18:16:06 · 12 answers · asked by Toby_Wan_Kenoby 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Mathematics
the question was not what the largest prime is, it was what the largest prime is that YOU can come up with. Not what the largest prime is that you can search for on the net. Sofar only a few people have even understood the question.
2006-10-15 09:58:18 · update #1
By heart I know 333667
Th
2006-10-13 18:59:25 · answer #1 · answered by Thermo 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I can't. And neither can you. And, for that matter, neither can anyone else. That's because the list of prime numbers is endless (I really hesitate to say 'infinite' around here âº) as was proven by a very smart man named Euclid.
OTOH, the largest known prime number has several million digits in it.
Doug
Edit:
Damn!! Pascal and r_sharp certainly have their feces collated âº
Let's see.... If I wrote out a number with 9808358 digits and I used .1 inch for each digit, that'd be....
980835.8 inches / 12 is 81736 feet / 5280 is 15.48 miles long. That is one *big*-αss number âº
Doug
2006-10-13 18:22:21 · answer #2 · answered by doug_donaghue 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
9
2006-10-13 19:45:56 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
2^32,582,657 - 1.
Edit: Led_n_guns, your number is not prime. 100000000000011 factors as 3 * 23 * 37 * 67 * 584620961.
Bill W, your number is not prime. Googolplex+1 has many known prime factors, some of which are listed here: http://www.alpertron.com.ar/GOOGOL.HTM .
2006-10-13 18:22:52 · answer #4 · answered by Pascal 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you consider the "largest prime number" to be the "most important prime number" then I would say 1 is the biggest. All prime numbers are found by adding 1 to a known factorable number....
2006-10-13 19:15:33 · answer #5 · answered by newsgirlinos2 5 · 0⤊ 3⤋
A googolplex plus 1
2006-10-13 18:17:51 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Is infinity a prime number? There's a symbol used for infinity then maybe use a square root symbol in front of it and hope that counts as a prime number. Or what about pie? Infinity plus pie. Or better yet, the pie symbol an the infinity symbol where the power sign goes. All this talk about pie is making me hungry. I gotta go!
2006-10-13 18:29:37 · answer #7 · answered by Professor Armitage 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
infinety +1-2
2006-10-13 21:36:12 · answer #8 · answered by genius sonia 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
13, but the government has a reward of a million dollars or so if you find one bigger than the one they have.. they use it for some kind of computer security or encoding.
prime numbers are the best for that sort of thing
2006-10-13 18:19:15 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
2^32582657-1 it has 9808358 digits.
2006-10-13 18:30:11 · answer #10 · answered by R_SHARP 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋