What is the oldest prime number?

evenly. The first 25 prime numbers (all the prime numbers less than 100) are: 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31, 37, 41, 43, 47, 53, 59, 61, 67, 71, 73, 79, 83, 89, 97 (sequence A000040 in the OEIS).

What is the largest odd prime?

97 is the largest two digit odd prime number.

Who discovered Mersenne primes?

In September 2006, Curtis Cooper and Steven Boone et al. discovered the 44th known Mersenne prime in the U.S. In December 2005, Curtis Cooper and Steven Boone et al.

What is the largest prime numbers up to 100?

So, there are total 25 prime numbers up to 100. Therefore, the prime numbers 1 to 100 can be listed as, 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31, 37, 41, 43, 47, 53, 59, 61, 67, 71, 73, 79, 83, 89, 97.

What is the longest list of prime numbers you have calculated?

Perhaps the longest lists ever calculated (but not all stored) are those corresponding to the mximal prime gape (and twin prime constant) projects. See Nicely’s lists. At the time I last updated this page, these projects had found (but not stored) all the prime up to 10 18, but not yet to 10 19.

How many primes are there in the world?

Here we keep the list of the 5000 largest known primes, updated hourly (hundreds of new primes are submitted every month). We are the world’s primary source to the current prime number records.

What is the largest prime number with no divisors?

A prime number is a positive integer, excluding 1, with no divisors other than 1 and itself. According to Euclid’s theorem there are infinitely many prime numbers, so there is no largest prime.

What is the largest prime number in ascending order?

The following table lists the progression of the largest known prime number in ascending order. Here Mn = 2n − 1 is the Mersenne number with exponent n. The longest record-holder known was M19 = 524,287, which was the largest known prime for 144 years.