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Titanic Prime

A Prime with $\geq 1000$ Digits. As of 1990, there were more than 1400 known (Ribenboim 1990). The table below gives the number of known titanic primes as a function of year end.

Year Titanic Primes
1992 2254
1993 9166
1994 9779
1995 12391


References

Caldwell, C. ``The Ten Largest Known Primes.'' http://www.utm.edu/research/primes/largest.html#largest.

Morain, F. ``Elliptic Curves, Primality Proving and Some Titanic Primes.'' Astérique 198-200, 245-251, 1992.

Ribenboim, P. The Little Book of Big Primes. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, p. 97, 1990.

Yates, S. ``Titanic Primes.'' J. Recr. Math. 16, 250-262, 1983-84.

Yates, S. ``Sinkers of the Titanics.'' J. Recr. Math. 17, 268-274, 1984-85.




© 1996-9 Eric W. Weisstein
1999-05-26