What is the largest prime number calculated by a person and not a machine?

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What is the largest prime number calculated by a person and not a machine?

2007-03-02 20:06:26 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Mathematics

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According to the reference below, factors for numbers up to 100,000,000 (supposedly showing primes) were calculated by J. P. Kulik (1773-1863) who was a professor of mathematics at the Universty of Prague. This was the result of a 20-year hobbly (life must have been pretty dull back then).

2007-03-03 05:53:05 · answer #1 · answered by nor^ron 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋