From: Jeremy Cooper <jeremy@crl.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 94 18:26:32 PDT
To: Peter Wayner <pcw@access.digex.net>
Subject: Re: Classic Math gone wrong...Re: (n!+1)^(1/2)
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On Mon, 11 Apr 1994, Peter Wayner wrote:

> Is there a largest prime number? 
> If there is then collect all primes, p1...pn and multiply them
> together p=p1*p2*...*pn. p+1 is not divisible by p1...pn. Therefore
> p+1 is a prime. Therefore there is no largest prime number. 

That's cool, why doesn't anyone use this to generate large prime numbers?
I can see great potential for this one.  
 Awaiting scorching flames,
 Jeremy
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