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 November 21st, 2009, 03:47 PM #1 Senior Member   Joined: Aug 2008 From: Blacksburg VA USA Posts: 338 Thanks: 4 Math Focus: primes of course # of primes Easy one. I realize the count is infinite, but in terms of certified primes, excluding specialized form ones, is the certified number tracked and updated anywhere by anyone? Maybe a few years ago it was one number, today is a few million more, whatever. [I presume certified xcludes pseudoprimes?] Thanks
November 21st, 2009, 07:59 PM   #2
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 Originally Posted by billymac00 Easy one. I realize the count is infinite, but in terms of certified primes, excluding specialized form ones, is the certified number tracked and updated anywhere by anyone?
Surely not. Here's a prime
Code:
1732171865069032155779794045187
and its Pocklington-Lehmer certificate
Code:
[2 2 1]

[17 2 1]

[443 2 1]

[38401050773 2 1]
bit the prime is 'so large' that almost surely no one before has ever certified this to be prime. (There are ~3 billion billion smaller primes for each person on Earth, for example.) But since it's so easy to certify this as a prime -- Pari did it in microseconds -- who could possibly keep track?

 November 22nd, 2009, 05:12 AM #3 Senior Member   Joined: Feb 2009 From: Adelaide, Australia Posts: 1,519 Thanks: 3 Re: # of primes Perhaps you are thinking of Mersenne primes. Forty-seven are known. They are the ronin of math. Okay, maybe not.
 November 22nd, 2009, 10:01 AM #4 Senior Member   Joined: Aug 2008 From: Blacksburg VA USA Posts: 338 Thanks: 4 Math Focus: primes of course Re: # of primes yes I meant normal primes. CRG, are you saying to merely use isprime of Pari? To help me learn, how xactly was that certificate retrieved out of Pari? thanks ...
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 Originally Posted by billymac00 yes I meant normal primes. CRG, are you saying to merely use isprime of Pari? To help me learn, how xactly was that certificate retrieved out of Pari? thanks ...
isprime(p,1) gives a certificate for p. Other flags may give other certs; I don't recall the settings.

Edit: As of the current build, 1 is the only flag that gives a certification. If you want a better method, try Primo or François Morain's ECPP.

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