The Prime Pages is a website about prime numbers maintained by Prof. In Mathematics, a prime number (or a prime) is a Natural number which has exactly two distinct natural number Divisors 1 Chris Caldwell at the University of Tennessee at Martin. The Prime Pages is a website about Prime numbers maintained by Prof The University of Tennessee (also known as UT) sometimes called the University of Tennessee Knoxville ( UT Knoxville, or UTK) is the flagship The University of Tennessee at Martin is a campus in the University of Tennessee system
The site maintains the list of the "5000 largest known primes", selected smaller primes of special forms, and many "top twenty" lists for primes of various forms. As of November 2007, the 5000th prime has around 100000 digits. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar.
The Prime Pages has a wealth of articles on primes and primality testing. A primality test is an Algorithm for determining whether an input number is prime. It includes "The Prime Glossary" with articles on hundreds of glosses related to primes, and "Prime Curios!" with thousands of curios about specific numbers.
The database started as a list of titanic primes by Samuel Yates. Titanic prime is a term coined by Samuel Yates in the 1980s denoting a Prime number of at least 1000 decimal digits Samuel Yates is a Mathematician who first described Unique primes in the 1980s For years the whole top-5000 has consisted of gigantic primes. A gigantic prime is a Prime number with at least 10000 decimal digits Primes of special forms are kept on the current lists if they are titanic and in the top-20 or top-5 for their form.
References
- Chimes, Art. "Website of the Week — The Prime Pages", VOA News, Voice of America, 21 July 2006. Retrieved on 2007-04-28. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1192 - Assassination of Conrad of Montferrat (Conrad I King of Jerusalem, in Tyre, two days after his title
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