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Largest prime number

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-20 12:50

I have been thinking for a long time, yet I cannot discover wether there is a prime number that is greater than all the others. What do you think?

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-22 19:00

Saying that there is an infinite number of primes is not the same thing as saying there is no largest prime.

``There is no largest prime'' is a true statement and completely valid and provable under finitistic mathematics as defined by algebraic topology: a semi-ring representing the natural numbers. ``There are infinite number of primes'' is a false statement under rigorous finitistic mathematics (the only kind which is worth considering as realistic), although informally the word "infinite" could be interpreted as a metaphor for a non-halting recursive process that generates prime numbers.

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