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How to Find VERY BIG Prime Numbers?

Digital Genius 239,668 12 months ago
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Humans have been looking for prime numbers for a very long time. We still haven’t found the formula for generating prime numbers. However, we have developed methods to discover increasingly larger primes. Chapters: 00:00 The largest prime 00:37 Infinite number of primes 02:38 Sieve of Eratosthenes 03:14 Sieve of Atkin 04:46 Fermat's Little Theorem 06:10 Miller-Rabin test 09:18 AKS primality test 10:05 Mersenne Primes 11:43 Perfect Numbers 13:50 Lucas-Lehmer primality test 15:15 Intro to Group Theory 19:15 Lucas-Lehmer test proof 24:44 GIMPS

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