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Re:Illegal prime by dorgo on Saturday April 28, 2018 @04:17AM (#16946657)
It won't work. There are 37,607,912,018 prime numbers smaller than 1,000,000,000,000. It's 11 decimal digits vs. 13. All the compression comes from the information that it is a prime number.

To point to the "Nth prime" would require almost as many digits as the prime itself. Mabe it's more efficient for very large primes, but I don't think so.

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