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Re:48th Mersenne prime found by undershirt on Tuesday February 05, 2013 @11:57AM (#5171679)
oops.
Re:48th Mersenne prime found by cantos on Tuesday February 05, 2013 @12:18PM (#5171818)
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.