Will I personally discover a new prime number longer than 600,000 digits in 2023?
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resolved Jan 8
Resolved
NO

i'm lookin' for beeg primes

Resolves YES if I discover a new probable prime number that is longer than 600,000 digits in length (novelty judged by inclusion in prptop)
Resolves NO otherwise

probable prime numbers are basically primes that are so big (and not of a specific, more easily proved, prime number form (like mersenne primes)), that it is currently computationally infeasible to mathematically prove that they are prime numbers, so several other probable prime number tests are done instead.

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@brubsby Can you please resolve?

alright i've tested 100k candidates with no luck, and that was all with one processor core from sep 26 to now (37 days), turning it up to 28 cores now for a while. barring difficulty increase i should get through another 100k candidates done in two-ish days.

predictedYES

100k is maybe misleading because a large portion of the candidates have always been sieved out with relatively little effort. but i am finishing the process of checking a range of 100k candidates each time.

@brubsby How is the quest going? What algorithms are you using?

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