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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 2012-10-20 16:30

Suppose the number of primes is finite: p1, p2, ..., pk, and let n be the product of all these primes. n - 1 > pk so is not prime, so there is some i such that pi divides n - 1. Since pi also divides n, pi divides n - (n - 1) = 1, which is absurd. Thus the number of primes is infinite.
http://www.hermetic.ch/pns/proof.htm

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