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Hunting Million-Digit Primes from My Loft

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Re: Hunting Million-Digit Primes from My Loft

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Just curious - is there any practical significance/use of such large primes, other than publishing?

Very large primes are not a particularly useful result.

The mathematical tools which people develop along the way to finding them can be useful for other number theory problems.

Re: Hunting Million-Digit Primes from My Loft

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post #4

Just curious - is there any practical significance/use of such large primes, other than publishing?

The largest known prime could be considered a universal scientific benchmark.

It is also a concise statement that is trivial to verify.

(by "trivial" meaning much much easier to verify than to discover in the first place)