Largest Twin Prime Yet Discovered 160
Chris Chiasson writes "The Twin Internet Prime Search and PrimeGrid have recently discovered the largest known twin prime. A twin prime is a pair of prime numbers separated by the integer two. The pair discovered on January 15th was 2003663613 * 2195,000 ± 1. The two primes are 58,711 digits long. The discoverer was Eric Vautier, from France."
Are you kidding? (Score:5, Funny)
Are you kidding? Those are easy to find! Try getting two primes separated by the integer three...
Re:Are you kidding? (Score:5, Funny)
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The primes are 1 and 7, separated by the integer 3...
Re:Don't seem too excited (Score:5, Funny)
i'm so sorry.
Re:How is this meaningful? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I am a math major... (Score:5, Funny)
One down, infinity more to go. Proof by enumeration, here we come...
Re:Don't seem too excited (Score:3, Funny)
Only on slashdot would the parent get moderated as "informative"...
Re:I am a math major... (Score:3, Funny)
Are you kidding me?!? I'm going to use that as my new encryption key! It will be like UBER-secure and take ten hundred billion, billion YEARS to guess!
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Um... I wasn't supposed to tell you that, was I?
Re:Are you kidding? (Score:5, Funny)
And when you're done with that, find two perfect cubes whose difference is also a perfect cube. I did this once, but there wasn't enough room in the margin to write the answer.
Good for security. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Fun stuff (Score:3, Funny)
MOD PARENT +37 KICKASS (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Don't seem too excited (Score:5, Funny)
It's the only even prime number.
Re:How is this meaningful? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:How is this meaningful? (Score:3, Funny)
Why call them twin primes... (Score:5, Funny)
To quote Fark (Score:3, Funny)
But... aren't all odd numbers prime ? (Score:5, Funny)
Well, this problem has different solutions whether you are a:
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prime: you must specify exactly one of the r, c, t, x, or d options
For more information, type "prime --help''
Segmentation fault, Core dumped.
Oops, let's try that again:
3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 is
Um, right. Okay, how about this:
3 is not prime, 5 is not prime, 7 is not prime, 9 is not prim
Re:Are you kidding? (Score:5, Funny)
Noted.
Re:Good example of a /. story. (Score:3, Funny)
*rimshot*