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Message 105408 - Posted: 26 Feb 2017 | 21:56:37 UTC

Hello everyone

I leave here a question, surely other people have already asked the same thing, forum administrators can delete my question if they wish.

Question: Can anyone tell me what PrimeGrid prime numbers are used for?

Thank you.

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Message 105410 - Posted: 26 Feb 2017 | 22:05:09 UTC - in response to Message 105408.

Except fact, that is very rare, for nothing :)
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Message 105416 - Posted: 26 Feb 2017 | 23:51:41 UTC - in response to Message 105408.
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Hello everyone

I leave here a question, surely other people have already asked the same thing, forum administrators can delete my question if they wish.

Question: Can anyone tell me what PrimeGrid prime numbers are used for?

Thank you.

On the conjecture projects (ESP, PSP, SoB, SR5, TRP) they help to prove the conjecture. For other projects, they're just relatively large prime numbers with no use in particular. We do check all primes of the form k*2^n+1 where k<> 1 to see if they're Fermat divisors, but someone else would have to explain why those are useful.

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Message 105431 - Posted: 27 Feb 2017 | 15:20:37 UTC - in response to Message 105416.

Also, projects such as the smaller Generalized Fermat Number (GFN) searches may help test whether models on the expected frequency of primes among such numbers seem to be corroborated by numerical evidence or not. However, by the nature of it, no rigorous proof or refutation of statements about the asymptotic behavior can come out of this. Only indications. /JeppeSN

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Message 105434 - Posted: 27 Feb 2017 | 18:04:32 UTC - in response to Message 105431.

I may be wrong but very large prime numbers are also used for encryption.

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Message 105436 - Posted: 27 Feb 2017 | 18:10:29 UTC - in response to Message 105434.

I may be wrong but very large prime numbers are also used for encryption.


That is true, but "large" is a very subjective adjective.

The prime numbers used in encryption are positively miniscule compared to the prime numbers we search for here.

Where PrimeGrid's work helps with things like encryption is the techniques than theorems that enable the searches for the really large primes can then be used to easily find the small primes used in encryption technologies.
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