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Prime Number Resources and Information

Prime number basics

• What is a prime number?
• The first 1000 primes
• How many primes are there?
• Frequently Asked Questions about Primes

How to prove that a large number is prime

• Finding prime numbers - an introduction
• The quick tests
• The classical tests
• General purpose tests
• Amdahl 6's method for finding large non-Mersenne primes

Largest known primes

• The largest known primes
• A brief history of the largest known prime

Mersenne primes

• Who was Marin Mersenne?
• What is a Mersenne number?
• What is a Mersenne prime?
  
  
• The history of Mersenne primes
• Digits & English names of known Mersenne primes
• Will Edgington's Mersenne page
  
  
• Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search and GIMPS status
• Entropia's Internet PrimeNet Server and PrimeNet Status

Prime number software

• GIMPS free software
• Elliptic Curve Primality Proving software
• Calc
• lucas.cal

Miscellaneous prime links

• Prime number news
• Cooperative computation award news
• Ways to visualize prime numbers
• Lists of primes
• Smarandache Notions Journal
• Misc links from the prime number pages
• Prime number page glossary
• Search the prime pages
• PrimeNet Frequently Asked Questions
• meganumbers.com - Some lists of prime numbers

For more information

Press release about the awards program (Mar. 31, 1999)
Official rules for the awards
Cooperative Computing Award News
Frequently Asked Questions about the awards
Prime Number Resources and Information