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Hello all: Let F(n)=P(n)!-P(n)!!+2 P(n) n-th prime F(1)=2 Prime F(2)=5 Prime F(3)=107 Prime F(4)=4937 Prime Find another prime number in this secuence ...
24 Dec 10, 2011
1:35 am

Robin Garcia
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if we were to define all integers as prime numbers, then it's certainly easy to prove that Goldbach's Conjecture is correct. we differentiate primes from...
1 Dec 7, 2011
12:37 am

Bill Krys
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prime, prime, and double-prime... there Paul Leyland can't spam me or maybe he can!?!? Hi, Mr. Broadhurst, the fatPhil Carmody, Mr. Paul Underwood,...
6 Dec 5, 2011
6:07 pm

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Recently, while working on something else, I invented as a side effect, a new(?) algorithm to find factors of an integer N. Specifically, I believe I could...
1 Dec 3, 2011
1:45 am

WarrenS
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http://www.noulakaz.net/weblog/2007/03/18/a-regular-expression-to-check-for-prime-numbers/ -- Claudio Meller http://grageasdefarmacia.blogspot.com ...
4 Dec 1, 2011
1:22 am

Phil Carmody
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I'm trying to calculate... 5^77158673929 mod (2^127-1) thanks in advance, Bill...
3 Nov 30, 2011
8:14 pm

djbroadhurst
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Hi , all , Correcting a typo in my message of a few minutes ago : ( n^2 + n + 1 ) / 3 Not even draft yet , let alone published : ...
1 Nov 29, 2011
5:49 pm

Walter Nissen
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a simple calculus-based definition can be used to solve the following two questions: ... all Mersenne numbers, Mp, are square-free, where 'p' is prime, & all...
81 Nov 29, 2011
5:34 pm

Walter Nissen
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Off Topic:  (Small is not uglier than big). (n^625+2) /2011 is prime for n= n = 2513759 , n = 8401967,... Puzzle:  Find another prime p such that there is n...
17 Nov 26, 2011
9:03 am

Phil Carmody
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Dear group! Some of us are interested in the distribution of prime numbers and irregulatities of this distribution. One may recall an old paper by Richard P....
2 Nov 22, 2011
11:54 pm

Andrey Kulsha
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I had been trying to map the primes "P" that are equidistant for all integers "I" by attempting to establish a unique "N" - the integer distance from each...
4 Nov 20, 2011
5:34 pm

Bill Krys
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Hi, Group. ... (all of them can be proved similar to this one) ... 1. theorem: if k >1 and p= 4k +1 is 'prime&#39;, then 2*p +1 is also 'prime&#39; iff 2*p +1 divides...
1 Nov 15, 2011
8:05 pm

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Hi, according to http://primes.utm.edu/primes/lists/all.txt PG has no doubly beastly exponents (666666) except for those which are part of David Broadhurst&#39;s...
2 Nov 14, 2011
4:25 am

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An integer is called p-smooth for a given prime p, if its prime factors don't exceed p. Sometimes a few consecutive integers are p-smooth (of course, we are...
42 Nov 9, 2011
3:28 am

Mark
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Puzzle: Prove (but not experimentally) that there is a value of t for which (2/3)*sqrt(6*t+1)*cos(arc cos(27*t^2+18*t-25)/(2*(6*t+1)^(3/2)))/3)+1/3 is a prime...
33 Nov 9, 2011
3:07 am

Ben Buhrow
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d=9754975 has 33*2  points ? factor(9754975) %1 = [5 2] [390199 1] and 390199 is a 3 mod 4 prime. So the number of points does not depend on the prime factors...
3 Nov 3, 2011
2:45 pm

djbroadhurst
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Hi, congratulation are in order for René Dohmen for discovering the biggest yet, 712355 digit factorial prime 150209!+1: ...
6 Nov 3, 2011
8:37 am

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Hi, I have found what may be the largest explicitly known gap between two consecutive primes. The bounding (probable) primes are 2^8191 + 19506585 and 2^8191 +...
2 Nov 3, 2011
6:25 am

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11796^7+7^11796 is proven prime with ECPP: http://www.primefan.ru/stuff/primes/certs/11796_7.zip I've got the prover code c57 but can't submit this prime with...
2 Nov 3, 2011
1:49 am

djbroadhurst
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Hello:   I have obtained this interesting limit whit Riemann Zeta function:   Limit {x->0}...
2 Nov 1, 2011
7:13 pm

Sebastian Martin Ruiz
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Not directly related with primes , with fractal dimensions, rather. Is there a way to solve the general power equation: a*b^x+c*d^x+e=0 with b and d integers...
14 Oct 31, 2011
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Maximilian Hasler
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Some silliness for the March break from school. Let a 2-3 number be those integers having, at most, factors of 2 and 3. Such numbers are...
64 Oct 30, 2011
7:34 pm

Phil Carmody
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Hello all: I've gotten all these formulas are verified for ALL Prime Numbers based on the harmonic numbers. Pn = Floor [H [(1 +1 / Pn) ^ ((Pn) ^ 2)]-EulerGamma...
1 Oct 29, 2011
11:19 pm

Sebastian Martin Ruiz
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After some 8 years of trying I finally got a k value in k*2^n-1 that has 120 or more primes in the range n=1 to 10,000. The k value is...
1 Oct 27, 2011
6:09 am

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Hi, If there is a better forum to post this to, please inform me. I am using NewPGen 2.82 to sieve a range. It is removing some k's that should stay and...
1 Oct 27, 2011
12:49 am

pbtoau
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Hello:   I have obtained this interesting limit whit Riemann Zeta function:   Limit {x->0}...
2 Oct 22, 2011
5:19 pm

djbroadhurst
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a²b+ac+1=N so we can factor N by THE PRIVATE KEY b is public = 165934383528488274966714610427423289329299658761195354239072 c is public = ...
1 Oct 22, 2011
12:30 pm

R
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Having today proven a new 100K-plus digit prime, I thought I would visit Chris's page http://primes.utm.edu/primes/lists/all.txt to see how big a prime has to...
8 Oct 20, 2011
12:11 am

paulunderwooduk
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It took a couple of minutes to break PFGW Version 3.5.4 using 64-bit linux: $ more tmp ABC nextprime($a) & p($b+1) & nextprime($a)-p($b+1)+F(5387) 1001000000...
46 Oct 17, 2011
12:48 pm

mgrogue@...
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I am very happy with the performance of NewPGen and pfgw when sieving numbers of special forms. Is there something comparable that would allow me to enter an...
1 Oct 17, 2011
8:22 am

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