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Sophie Germain Prime Search found World Record twin primes [pdf]

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90 points by TwoFx 9 years ago · 9 comments

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chx 9 years ago

It's incredibly fascinating how very simple constructs like primes have such complexity to them. It's very easy for a 14 year old to formulate questions relating to primes that noone can answer.

jason_slack 9 years ago

what I find interesting is the amount of computing power that it takes to calculate.

Edit: As an after thought, there are recordings of million digit prime numbers: http://www.primegrid.com/download/SR5-180062.pdf

pavel_lishin 9 years ago

Are there chains of Sophie Germain primes?

e.g.,

    p is prime
    2p + 1 is prime
    2(2p + 1) + 1 is prime...
di 9 years ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Germain_prime

gr3yh47 9 years ago

this is a great example of the title change rule making a title worse

i think taglines/subtitles/subject sentences should be eligible for titles too

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