> 10^5028-23489 > > yielding a Gap of 48116 (or 48117). 48117/ln(10^5028) = 4.156... > (Don't feel the need to respond to this message, > saying that you are excluding me from some > elite database, based on some arbitary But of course! I am most certainly not excluding you from a database, elite or otherwise. I'm excluding this particular data point because it doesn't meet my requirements but, if you were submit a gap which does meet them, I would be delighted to include you. You are in very good company. Many other researchers in the field of computational number theory have also been excluded because they didn't meet the requirements. That's the nature of the game. I personally have been excluded from many such databases because I haven't discovered a large enough prime, or factored a large enough integer, or whatever. > "measure of interest". Surely such a database > can have only very limited interest.) Milton, as is so often the case, you are entirely correct. Such a database is indeed of limited interest. The world's population is finite, individuals within it have a finite and rather short life time measured in a few decades or so, and it has many other things also to be interested in. Therefore, the interest in such a database is self-evidently of a very limited nature. The database which I'm compiling as a result of prompting by a couple of other contributors to this list, is at least of some limited interest to a few people. Several people have gone out of their way to contribute their achievements to me and several have commented constructively, whether favorably or otherwise, on the expression of my ideas and proposals. Please tell us, purely in the interests of a reasonably objective determination of the relative degrees of interest in our two endeavours, how much interest and of what nature has been expressed in your contributions to the field of discovering large prime gaps. All the best, Paul

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