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Largest Twin Prime Yet Discovered

Posted by kdawson on from the Hardy-Littlewood-conjecture dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Are you kidding? by SeanMon · · Score: 0, Redundant

    1 isn't a prime.

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  2. Re:Are you kidding? by xouumalperxe · · Score: 0, Redundant

    2 and 5
    Do I get a cookie?