It would be nice to have $100,000. It makes me wonder, though, why someone would pay to know a prime number. What use does it have? I once heard the government paid for those large numbers. Hmm, what would they do with it? If you did bring these people a number that you claimed was a 10 million digit prime number, how would they know if you were telling the truth if they can't get it themselves?

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technically your logic is right but the solution is wrong because 21 ends in 1 and its divisiable by 3 so alot of numbers ending in 1 would be divisable by 3 so

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I would like that poster, it's kinda neat. My girlfriend called me a nerd for it, ahah.

I'm going to ask one of my professors to help me get that $100,000.

Anyone of you tried to find it? We can work together, lol.

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Lol, I suck at Prime numbers. I don't get them. I don't get what is a prime number, and I don't get why they are so special. It would be pretty cool to get some cash to find out one though . Could someone explain to me what a prime number is . Math isn't a strong point of mine.

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WOW that crazzy... the poster just looks grey lol.... i thought they kept them numbers secret and they used them for encrypting thing... like because makes them impossible to crack...

hmm i plan on doing some thing.. that i herd that stick a server on peoples computers... evry onces.. and then u can make a super computer that uses evry 1 wiht the server/virus on there coputers cpu that they arnt using and make a masive super computer then using that to make the biggest prime number.. and get the money

mwahhaha

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I'm quite interested in this now. I'd like to know how you "combine" the computing power of multiple computers to solve something like this. If anybody really understands and knows how to do that, please let me know. I am going to start gathering a team of professors and math wizzes that I know. We might just go for all 3 prizes. That's 500,000. Even if I get a fifth of that, I'd be fine. Math is pretty fun sometimes, and now it can be plain ol' lucrative!

http://reconraiders.trap17.com/prime.php

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Wow, it is such a large number... haha I am getting a poster of it... well, not really.

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Oh comon don't be that mean to your teacher. If she was smart she'd be doing something else, but she isn't so she's a teacher. It's like making fun o disabled people for being desabled, it's just very bad taste

 

 

 

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"If she was smart she'd be doing something else"? "It's like making fun of disabled people for being disabled"?

I don't know if you're aware of how offensive saying something like that could be to a teacher, or to someone with a learning difficulty, but I think you should be aware that if you plan on saying something like that you should be very careful where you say it. First of all, it takes an awful lot of training and qualifications to become a teacher, it's also a VERY well-paid job, therefore making it PRETTY smart to become a teacher.

Also, you shouldn't poke fun at people's decisions in life, she chose to be a teacher, you chose not to.

And lastly, i'd just like to say that laughing at teacher for not being "as smart as she thought she was" is NOTHING like making fun of someone with a disability.

People don't CHOOSE to be disabled, people DO choose to be a teacher.

If anyone here is saying things in bad taste, I'm afraid to say it's most definately you.

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I like prime numbers in my spare time, that is when I really don't have time to do anything then I try to find some formula to describe prime numbers currently I have formula that can describe first 1000 but everything after that is useless.

And also I though that I might mention is why people are searching for prime numbers or why are they trying to calculate several millions of decimal places for number pi.

The reasons is that these calculations are the easiest way to test new computer systems.

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