Prime Numbers...

He googled biggest prime.

this is Tabitha

😁 oops wrong thread

@sistercheese Yes, I do mean minus 1. That's why I used the subtraction symbol before the "1."

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2017

That's the answer. 

Which is a Mersenne prime, by the way.

88789, 88793, 88799, 88801, 88807, 88811, 88813, 88817, 88819, 88843, 88853, 88861, 88867, 88873,
88883, 88897, 88903, 88919, 88937, 88951, 88969, 88993, 88997, 89003, 89009, 89017, 89021, 89041,
89051, 89057, 89069, 89071, 89083, 89087, 89101, 89107, 89113, 89119, 89123, 89137, 89153, 89189

A prime number is a whole number greater than 1, whose only two whole-numberfactors are 1 and itself. The first few prime numbers are 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, and 29. As we proceed in the set of natural numbers N = {1, 2, 3, ...}, the primes become less and less frequent in general.

I don't think I'll find it, but I'll let you know when humanity finds our next prime.

So lemme get this straight. Is (2) the only even number that's prime ?

Okay. Pick a prime number between 1 & 50.

Now, go to my webpage and see the number you just picked. 

That is the ultimate question.

Very true.  But can you prove it?

∞

∞/∞ =1; ∞/1=∞

An easy one:

Suppose there are only n (finite) prime numbers. Multiply all those prime numbers and substract 1. You have a number (let's call it K) which is not divisible by any of the n prime numbers. Therefore:

a) K is not prime, but is the result of multiplying several prime numbers which are not in our initial conjunct of primes.

Or

b) K is a prime number

So now we have that the number of primes has incread, and will increase indefinetely if you do this an infinite amount of times.