Re:48th Mersenne prime found
by undershirt on Tuesday February 05, 2013 @11:57AM
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oops.
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It will not necessarily be a larger prime. But it will always be divisible by a larger prime. See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclids_theorem
(Though not necessarily the next largest prime).
The problem with this approach is that the product of the first n primes grows exponentially as the number of primes increases.