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Subject: Re: [PrimeNumbers] Prime GAP of 72580
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 18:15:51 -0700
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From: "Milton Brown" <miltbrown@...>

What's that? about 4.5 billion years?

Perhaps in that length of time Primo can improve a bit.

I personally am looking forward to Priemero 1.0

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nathan Russell" <nrussell@...>
To: "Milton Brown" <miltbrown@...>; <primenumbers@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 5:56 PM
Subject: Re: [PrimeNumbers] Prime GAP of 72580

On Fri, 14 Sep 2001 16:29:25 -0700, "Milton Brown"
<miltbrown@...> wrote:

>I have just posted the PRP's of
>
> 10^10003 + 63091
>
>and
>
> 10^10003 - 9489
>
>With no prime numbers between these values,
>this gives a prime gap of
>
> 72580

Congrats. It would indeed, except that neither of these numbers is a
proven prime. In fact, both of them are something around a thousand
bits too large to be proven with Primo, even if one was willing to run
it until the Earth was swallowed by the Sun.

Nathan


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