How they found the World's Biggest Prime Number - Numberphile

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  • @MrWabadabadoe
    @MrWabadabadoe 8 років тому +4641

    2 forests where destroyed to make that book

    • @thelatestartosrs
      @thelatestartosrs 8 років тому +18

      +mrkarlhey not really unless you're really into that stuff and can compare it to other values for random activities

    • @edinburghcopyshop1705
      @edinburghcopyshop1705 8 років тому +17

      +Wabadabadoe It's only a ream and a half per copy

    • @mahinalam
      @mahinalam 8 років тому +11

      +mrkarlhey It wasn't found with extremely advanced computers rather 800ish very average computers months.

    • @mahinalam
      @mahinalam 8 років тому +5

      +mrkarlhey It wasn't found with extremely advanced computers rather 800ish very average computers months.

    • @mahinalam
      @mahinalam 8 років тому

      +mrkarlhey It wasn't found with extremely advanced computers rather 800ish very average computers months.

  • @donbasuradenuevo
    @donbasuradenuevo 8 років тому +772

    Finding the 2^127-1 Lucas number... by hand. Imagine messing up just one freaking number.

    • @ramuk1127
      @ramuk1127 8 років тому +2

      eZ

    • @conomotoapologize1125
      @conomotoapologize1125 8 років тому +17

      +donbasuradenuevo Use binomial expansion.

    • @monicarosas264
      @monicarosas264 5 років тому +16

      3,848,889,888 3,848,889,890
      3,848,888,897
      whoops gotta start over

    • @ahsannadeem346
      @ahsannadeem346 4 роки тому +1

      I predict you just tested 2^7-1 already..
      Didn't u??

    • @MikeRosoftJH
      @MikeRosoftJH 4 роки тому +52

      @@monicarosas264 The mathematician William Shanks took 15 years to calculate 707 decimal digits of pi, but he made a mistake at the 528th position.

  • @vinnyoh4274
    @vinnyoh4274 7 років тому +1253

    Matt: ... I know 5 is a prime number.
    Brady: What??
    Matt: Probably.....
    What a classic Parker Square moment.

  • @NomTom
    @NomTom 3 роки тому +357

    instead of searching for the biggest prime number, I went searching for the smallest. After two years of calculating, my computer finally found it: 2

    • @randomcat5262
      @randomcat5262 2 роки тому +45

      try hunting for more even primes

    • @gatlinggun511
      @gatlinggun511 Рік тому +3

      Isn’t one also a prime or is it not considered a prime because it’s also a square

    • @christinebeatrixconsul2031
      @christinebeatrixconsul2031 Рік тому +13

      @@gatlinggun511 1 is not a prime due to the fact that it only has 1 factor. a prime number has 2 factors, 1 and itself

    • @camo5553
      @camo5553 Рік тому +20

      @@gatlinggun511 1 isn't considered prime because it would break the fundamental theorem of arithmetic, as they would then have infinite prime factorizations due to being able to have an arbitrary number of ones in the factorization, so we decided to just not include it as prime (among other reasons, but this is a big reason why)

    • @dopesponge8430
      @dopesponge8430 Рік тому

      It’s infinity right?

  • @harrytsang1501
    @harrytsang1501 8 років тому +1745

    this number is fabulous in binary

    • @kemkyrk8029
      @kemkyrk8029 8 років тому +108

      +Harry Tsang Like all Mersenne numbers

    • @REMagic42
      @REMagic42 8 років тому +61

      +Harry Tsang Yeah, I am so smart that I learned it by heart!

    • @parakmi1
      @parakmi1 8 років тому +12

      +TheJman0205
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    • @AbandonedVoid
      @AbandonedVoid 8 років тому +3

      01001101 01000100 01000101 01110111 01001101 01010100 01000001 01111000 01001101 01010100 01000101 01100111 01001101 01000100 01000101 01110111 01001101 01000100 01000101 01111000 01001101 01010100 01000101 01100111 01001101 01000100 01000101 01110111 01001101 01000100 01000101 01111000 01001101 01010100 01000101 01100111 01001101 01000100 01000001 01111000 01001101 01000100 01000001 01110111 01001101 01000100 01000101 01100111 01001101 01000100 01000001 01111000 01001101 01000100 01000001 01110111 01001101 01000100 01000001 01100111 01001101 01000100 01000101 01110111 01001101 01000100 01000001 01110111 01001101 01010100 01000001 01100111 01001101 01000100 01000101 01111000 01001101 01000100 01000101 01110111 01001101 01000100 01000101 01100111 01001101 01000100 01000101 01111000 01001101 01000100 01000101 01111000 01001101 01010100 01000001 01100111 01001101 01000100 01000101 01111000 01001101 01000100 01000001 01110111 01001101 01000100 01000101 01100111 01001101 01000100 01000101 01111000 01001101 01010100 01000001 01110111 01001101 01010100 01000001 01100111 01001101 01000100 01000101 01111000 01001101 01010100 01000101 01110111 01001101 01000100 01000101 01100111 01001101 01000100 01000001 01111000 01001101 01000100 01000001 01110111 01001101 01000100 01000001 01100111 01001101 01000100 01000101 01111000 01001101 01010100 01000001 01111000 01001101 01000100 01000001 01100111 01001101 01000100 01000101 01111000 01001101 01000100 01000101 01110111 01001101 01000100 01000001 01100111 01001101 01000100 01000101 01111000 01001101 01010100 01000001 01110111 01001101 01010100 01000001 01100111 01001101 01000100 01000101 01111000 01001101 01000100 01000001 01111000 01001101 01000100 01000101 01100111 01001101 01000100 01000101 01111000 01001101 01000100 01000001 01110111 01001101 01000100 01000101 01100111 01001101 01000100 01000101 01111000 01001101 01000100 01000001 01111000 01001101 01000100 01000001 01100111 01001101 01000100 01000001 01111000 01001101 01000100 01000001 01110111 01001101 01000100 01000101 01100111 01001101 01000100 01000001 01111000 01001101 01000100 01000001 01110111 01001101 01000100 01000001 01100111 01001101 01000100 01000001 01111000 01001101 01010100 01000101 01110111 01001101 01010100 01000001 01100111 01001101 01000100 01000101 01110111 01001101 01000100 01000001 01111000 01001101 01000100 01000001 01100111

    • @PathOfDamn
      @PathOfDamn 8 років тому +3

      +Abandoned Void 01000010 01101001 01101110 01100001 01110010 01111001 00101100 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 01101110 00100000 01000010 01100001 01110011 01100101 00110110 00110100 00101100 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 01101110 00100000 01100010 01101001 01101110 01100001 01110010 01111001 00100000 01100001 01100111 01100001 01101001 01101110 00101100 00100000 01100101 01101000 00111111 00001101 00001010 00001101 00001010 01010000 01101111 01101001 01101110 01110100 01101100 01100101 01110011 01110011 00101110 00101110 00101110 00100000 01000010 01110101 01110100 00100000 01101001 01110100 00100111 01110011 00100000 01100110 01110101 01101110 00101100 00100000 01001001 00100000 01100111 01110101 01100101 01110011 01110011 00101110

  • @ElMoShApPiNeSs
    @ElMoShApPiNeSs 8 років тому +2676

    Wrong. The Lucas numbers go 4, 5, 6, 1, 2, 3.

    • @blinky_52
      @blinky_52 8 років тому +469

      +Thingsandstuff Now it's 4, 5, 6, 1, 2, 3, 7 xD

    • @thelatestartosrs
      @thelatestartosrs 8 років тому +1

      +Thingsandstuff thanks

    • @DrEvil-uw1ju
      @DrEvil-uw1ju 8 років тому +70

      +Thingsandstuff No they go: 2, 1, 3, 4, 7, 11, 18, 29, 47, 76, 123, 199, 322, 521, 843, 1364, 2207, 3571, 5778, 9349, 15127, 24476, 39603, 64079, 103682, 167761, 271443, 439204, 710647, 1149851, 1860498, 3010349, 4870847, 7881196, 12752043, 20633239, 33385282

    • @EmptyBodies
      @EmptyBodies 8 років тому +474

      Was there a joke here I missed?

    • @ElMoShApPiNeSs
      @ElMoShApPiNeSs 8 років тому +396

      +E.B. White George Lucas

  • @egormatuk3786
    @egormatuk3786 8 років тому +403

    03:43
    they grow up so fast ;-;

  • @Azide_zx
    @Azide_zx 4 роки тому +40

    fun fact, Prime95, which is the prime finder tool made by GIMPS, is also used as a stress test for CPUs for overclocking

    • @Pedro14ceara
      @Pedro14ceara Рік тому +2

      Can confirm, I saw a technician test my PC with it.

  • @TofranBohk
    @TofranBohk 8 років тому +2773

    I found one! 11 is a prime number!

    • @black_platypus
      @black_platypus 8 років тому +100

      +t0f0b0 and in binary too^^
      ...and quaternary
      ...and senary
      Cool, works in 4 distinct bases :D
      ...But it's not a Mersenne prime >:(

    • @jordanlynch571
      @jordanlynch571 8 років тому +30

      +Benjamin Philipp Wouldn't it be prime in an infinite number of distinct bases as 11 would simply whatever base you choose plus 1?

    • @black_platypus
      @black_platypus 8 років тому +14

      Jordan Lynch
      Of course... :D
      Somehow I was focused on decimal so much that I thought "well, the 'value' of 11 won't change in higher bases" as if it was a distinct digit, making higher bases irrelevant. That's what I meant by "distinct bases": "Eleven is still going to be eleven in bases higher than 10 and will always be a prime" - neglecting the fact that eleven would look like "Ɛ" for example.

    • @tubular618
      @tubular618 7 років тому +26

      I can count to potato!

    • @nickjimenez9983
      @nickjimenez9983 6 років тому +37

      11 has four factors:
      1, 2, 5.5, 11
      Trololoollooll jk jk jk jk
      J U S T K I D D I N G
      J US T A B R A N K. P R O

  • @GamesFromSpace
    @GamesFromSpace 8 років тому +502

    My brain just threw an exception.

    • @TanmayPatil37
      @TanmayPatil37 7 років тому +52

      I hope you caught it

    • @tubular618
      @tubular618 7 років тому +25

      You have an exceptional mind.

    • @gooz1691
      @gooz1691 6 років тому +13

      Don't see how it could've thrown an exception, integer overflow maybe

    • @danjbundrick
      @danjbundrick 6 років тому +2

      Oh is that what that sound was?

    • @blue9139
      @blue9139 5 років тому

      All even numbers can't be primes expect 2

  • @knighty0220
    @knighty0220 7 років тому +1092

    If you'd figure out a pattern, would you get more money for publishing a prime every month or for publishing the pattern?

    • @flibujo
      @flibujo 7 років тому +292

      Like pharmaceutical companies. They make less from curing disease than by treating it.

    • @lucasng4712
      @lucasng4712 7 років тому +103

      Are you the guy who believes the thing that they're withholding cancer cures too?

    • @hyprolxag
      @hyprolxag 7 років тому +95

      Lucas Ng yes and no. "Yes" is Companies wont produce any product they think unprofitable. if they could, the process would be secret and the ingredients be partly secret too, so we dont know if there was any better way possible. "No" is hardly found a company invest in such researches, investing in cancer research is super risky, so public laboratories run by the goverment will do this job, and yes, they will publish everything.

    • @ervinm.5065
      @ervinm.5065 7 років тому +48

      publish a prime every month. there will be many more pages each time so it will cost more and more. do not publish the pattern if you're able to find a prime each month or anyone will do it

    • @workhardism
      @workhardism 7 років тому +72

      A company that had the cure for cancer would make an untold fortune from it and would never withhold it. It wouldn't be relevant to them that other companies would no longer profit from treating the disease. Government agencies are run by people who have a vested interest in keeping their funding going on and on forever. There is much mere accountability in private concerns because you only get paid for what you actually accomplish an what you can market. Public (government) concerns exist to milk more and more research money, which would end as soon as they were to find a cure.

  • @zeddash.6695
    @zeddash.6695 8 років тому +803

    Here is a joke.
    The number 5 was a champion at boxing. He lost when he turned into a 6. The reason he started losing was because he wasn't in his prime.

    • @proto9053
      @proto9053 7 років тому +98

      But he was back at it again when he turned 7.

    • @darraghmckane4016
      @darraghmckane4016 7 років тому +40

      Zed dash. silly joke when he. was. 6 he was perfect.

    • @nickjimenez9983
      @nickjimenez9983 6 років тому +14

      Jayden Tan
      It wasn’t a 5-year old 5

    • @NickMC512
      @NickMC512 6 років тому +2

      Zed dash. This entire thread delivers.

    • @digitalfootballer9032
      @digitalfootballer9032 5 років тому +9

      Why is 6 afraid of 7? Because 7 8 9.

  • @12tone
    @12tone 8 років тому +643

    Any chance we'll get an explanation of why that method works?

    • @LOCKEYJ
      @LOCKEYJ 3 роки тому +16

      It’s in the video

    • @eboone
      @eboone 3 роки тому +37

      Interesting seeing you here 4 years later

    • @_wetmath_
      @_wetmath_ 3 роки тому +8

      @@eboone why is this video suddenly recommended

    • @jakemcmillian
      @jakemcmillian 3 роки тому +9

      @@_wetmath_ might be my fault... I was binge watching numberphile a couple weeks ago, found this one and made a few comments on it. From what I could tell, the last reply was a year before my comments. Just a guess though.

    • @SlashCrash_Studios
      @SlashCrash_Studios 3 роки тому +8

      Wait *what?!*
      What's my favorite music theorist doing here?!
      Ps. I'm on the spectrum too

  • @TehDragonGuy
    @TehDragonGuy 8 років тому +595

    You should mass produce those books. I would legitimately buy them.

    • @DjGreydanus
      @DjGreydanus 8 років тому +10

      +TehDragonGuy Why?

    • @davidnordlund1938
      @davidnordlund1938 8 років тому +62

      +David Greydanus because

    • @allyourcode
      @allyourcode 8 років тому +30

      +TehDragonGuy What are you going to do when the next largest prime is discovered?

    • @TehDragonGuy
      @TehDragonGuy 8 років тому +113

      +allyourcode Chop down even more trees.

    • @allyourcode
      @allyourcode 8 років тому +13

      I want to know how many tons of coal need to be burned for GIMPS to find the next largest prime.

  • @thelasttimeitookashowerwas7069
    @thelasttimeitookashowerwas7069 4 роки тому +46

    this is beyond my imagination how they come up with say something like lucas series and check if a number is prime or not from that series...
    props to the legends like these..

  • @Fish-ec8nq
    @Fish-ec8nq 6 років тому +73

    4:05 He fast forwarded those numbers because he started by saying “2 billion”, not “2 quintillion. Ripparoni

    • @dvndavid
      @dvndavid 5 років тому +6

      Fish Nugget it’s ~ 2 billion billions. Maybe thats why

    • @blue9139
      @blue9139 5 років тому +8

      David -
      Yea prop lol. But saying a quintillion is better

    • @anandsuralkar8376
      @anandsuralkar8376 4 роки тому

      @@blue9139 lol

  • @DavidRussell323
    @DavidRussell323 8 років тому +751

    I betcha
    2^(2^74207281 - 1)-1 would work

    • @alandouglas2789
      @alandouglas2789 8 років тому +2

      Why?

    • @vivafeverfifa2524
      @vivafeverfifa2524 8 років тому +104

      +Alan Douglas do you have an idea of how big that number is? It's like trillions of digits long (maybe even bigger).

    • @vivafeverfifa2524
      @vivafeverfifa2524 8 років тому +6

      +Alan Douglas do you have an idea of how big that number is? It's like trillions of digits long (maybe even bigger).

    • @trevorWilkinson
      @trevorWilkinson 8 років тому +21

      +DavidRussell323 was just thinking that, I wonder if the chances of a 2^Mersenne Prime - 1 are more likely the answer is a prime.

    • @zacchon
      @zacchon 8 років тому +54

      +VivaFeverFifa 2^74207281-1 contains 22,338,618 digits. 2^10^22,338,618 would be something like 10^22,338,617 digits long.

  • @drink__more__water
    @drink__more__water 8 років тому +30

    I love watching these videos... Even at school the people which are concentrated in maths tend to not actually care about, or get excited by math. It just makes me happy to see someone else smile because of a property of a sequence of numbers...

  • @clowen00
    @clowen00 8 років тому +277

    This cant be true! The Google Calculator says this number is Infinity!

    • @belleren9375
      @belleren9375 8 років тому +18

      Then it's wrong

    •  8 років тому +53

      +Clowen00 TIL Infinity fits in three volumes.

    • @ramuk1127
      @ramuk1127 8 років тому +3

      +Belleren savage

    • @adriantaylor753
      @adriantaylor753 8 років тому +8

      That's only because the number is too big for the calculator to calculate

    • @clowen00
      @clowen00 8 років тому +10

      Epic Wolf Oh really? That sounds actually plausible, didn't thought about that! ;-)

  • @neurospizz75
    @neurospizz75 7 років тому +96

    if I'm at a restaurant and order a cut of meat, can I use this formula to see if the ribs are prime?

  • @zioscozio
    @zioscozio 8 років тому +287

    Could somebody write this prime in base 26 and print it using English alphabet? Would it reveal interesting words? What would be the longest?

    • @keroia442
      @keroia442 8 років тому +78

      +scozio Gotta make it base 36.
      Thou has forgotten the numbers.

    • @carlosvargas2907
      @carlosvargas2907 8 років тому +1

      +Keroia Just encoding

    • @Trooperos90
      @Trooperos90 8 років тому +37

      +scozio it says 'illuminati'

    • @ilexdiapason
      @ilexdiapason 7 років тому +53

      scozio it would say "youhaveallbeenfooledforsolongtherealenemyisthemartians7902g4h8kkkkkk1" somewhere in there

    • @doszlopleonard6031
      @doszlopleonard6031 6 років тому

      scozio base 26?!?!?

  • @Cruuzie
    @Cruuzie 8 років тому +12

    Matt is so brilliant, gotta love his enthusiasm

    • @banemiladinov8202
      @banemiladinov8202 3 місяці тому

      He's so brilliant 18 + 29 is fiftyyyyishhh.... ahh 47 !😂😂

  • @SaraSchenstrom
    @SaraSchenstrom 8 років тому +56

    The fact that people are so nerdy they do this, and then print it out like it was a book, it makes me ridiculously happy.
    And btw, thank you guys for making videos! I haven't done very advanced math, but through your videos I have been able to at least kind of grasp the idea of some of these amazing things!

  • @MoosesValley
    @MoosesValley 2 роки тому +7

    Excellent video. So engaging, so informing, so entertaining ! The faces Matt pulls are so funny. In fact, I would put them in the "Flippin' hilarious !" category. And him printing the out the largest prime on 745 pages of paper (double sided) is just such a Matt thing to do. And it is not a waste of paper, he will take these volumes to talks, lectures, meetings, and people will look at them and wonder ... On a quiet Sunday afternoon, he will probably put his favorite math's journal aside and flick through these volumes and smile. (Don't worry, I would as well).

  • @dancrane3807
    @dancrane3807 4 роки тому +4

    1:35, gives away the answer, THEN says "spoiler". That's not the way a spoiler alert works dang you!

  • @tennisdude52278
    @tennisdude52278 8 років тому +212

    Can we have another calculator unboxing?

  • @kushal7371
    @kushal7371 6 років тому

    Great work and this is one of the best channels on youtube...

  • @jennifersiagian
    @jennifersiagian 7 років тому +1

    I want to say THANK You for everything you give us freeley

  • @pomegranatechannel
    @pomegranatechannel 7 років тому +5

    I love this topic. Please make more videos about prime numbers.

  • @samharper5881
    @samharper5881 8 років тому +333

    lol "the world's". Because it's prime here but on Mars it's actually divisible by 17 and on Neptune it's an even number.

    • @thelatestartosrs
      @thelatestartosrs 8 років тому +5

      +Sam Harper ?

    • @YourMJK
      @YourMJK 8 років тому +42

      +Albert Chan
      You are so clueless about how jokes work

    • @Xnoob545
      @Xnoob545 5 років тому

      I dont unsfdder4y3wfhwhy5

    • @DreckbobBratpfanne
      @DreckbobBratpfanne 5 років тому

      XD

    • @protonruffy12
      @protonruffy12 5 років тому +24

      Maybe "the world's" because an alien species couldve found a bigger one already.

  • @ProfessorEisenoxid
    @ProfessorEisenoxid 8 років тому

    This channel is one of the best on UA-cam!

  •  8 років тому +4

    What really impresses me is the fact that he decided to print it.

  • @fhmxlx9246
    @fhmxlx9246 8 років тому +5

    not exactly my field, but maths is always mindblowing and interesting, thanks for the great video Numberphile.

  • @Prinsten4girl
    @Prinsten4girl 8 років тому +3

    I would love to have those three copybooks. Seeing the number actually printed is amazing.

  • @AllHailZeppelin
    @AllHailZeppelin 2 роки тому +1

    “One of my favorite Mersenne Primes” is such a Matt Parker thing to say!

  • @rishimilward-bose3544
    @rishimilward-bose3544 8 років тому +20

    10:45 0.5 X speed, the way he says computers kills me

    • @marinap5345
      @marinap5345 4 роки тому +2

      10:46

    • @kathorsees
      @kathorsees 3 роки тому +2

      this is hilarious, he sounds absolutely drunk XDDD

    • @gallium-gonzollium
      @gallium-gonzollium 2 роки тому

      “for a dAay wE g- gAt sAmthing tOo dOo with oUr côMpüÜtèrs”

  • @OddtwangofDork
    @OddtwangofDork 8 років тому +14

    Don't know if the third video will cover this, but - Matt mentions here that we only need look for Mersenne primes (2^p)-1 where p is prime, and we're working our way up through prime values of p to check things. However, we know that Mersenne primes (and the other categories we're hunting for) are only a subset of all primes, so don't we eventually reach a point where we're not certain that the next exponent to check is indeed the next prime?
    For example, if you started only knowing that 2 is prime and that Mersenne primes exist, you'd immediately find that 3, 7 and 127 are prime, but you've already missed 5 and 11 because they're not Mersenne primes, which in turn means you didn't find 31 which is a Mersenne prime.
    I mean, we presumably know the primality of all numbers up to a point a lot greater than 74million, so I may be worrying about a far-future problem here!

    • @KaizokuNiichan
      @KaizokuNiichan 8 років тому +3

      +Oddtwang of Dork Testing the primality of smaller numbers will take a few seconds at most (probably not even a tenth of a second for a number of the order of a few billion.)

  • @pllplnt
    @pllplnt 8 років тому +6

    Can you guys make a video about the other competing software? Like the types of primes it finds and how it does it? Sounds interesting!

  • @juanjosecelada
    @juanjosecelada 3 роки тому

    Amazing !!!! This can definitely be parallelized.

  • @Dawwwg
    @Dawwwg 7 років тому

    I did PrimeGrid (and other DC projects) for a long time as well; love how distributed computing can help solve unimaginably large problems :)

  • @Swiftclaw123
    @Swiftclaw123 8 років тому +133

    Ok but why does this Lucas number prime test work?

    • @sefirotsama
      @sefirotsama 4 роки тому +20

      The real question remains unanswered

    • @050138
      @050138 4 роки тому +23

      The proof is beyond the scope of this video

    • @srirachadonut8011
      @srirachadonut8011 4 роки тому +27

      Just math. You could ask that question about the simplest algebra and end up in a massive loophole of confusing proofs

    • @martrayleigh7988
      @martrayleigh7988 4 роки тому +10

      The one that can answer that is 3blue1brown..

    • @jacobshirley3457
      @jacobshirley3457 4 роки тому +25

      @@050138 The proof is left as an exercise to the viewer.

  • @christianpoland8573
    @christianpoland8573 8 років тому +6

    Joined the GIMPS project today, 1.7% done on two exponents!!! I'm feeling lucky :o

  • @blockbrain2713
    @blockbrain2713 8 років тому

    Sup matt today u gave a talk at Denbigh High I really enjoyed it thanks 😄😄😄😄😄😄

  • @aaaaaaaaaaaa9023
    @aaaaaaaaaaaa9023 6 років тому

    AAH!
    1:35
    you said spoilers AFTER you said it!!
    I was looking forward to watching the prime numbers!

  • @johnny5021
    @johnny5021 5 років тому +7

    I was doing some math and found that (2n)+(n^2)-1 created primes very well if n is even. Example: (2 x 99922222222220)+(99922222222220^2)-1 is prime. I also saw that up to 200 being n (leaving out odd numbers) it spit out a prime 42% of the time.

  • @ApplicationBot
    @ApplicationBot 6 років тому +28

    they found a new one yesterday

  • @DaveScottAggie
    @DaveScottAggie 8 років тому +1

    This is pretty incredible that there are ways to check a number for primality, or prove it is composite, without finding any factors.

  • @99bits46
    @99bits46 7 років тому +19

    Poor computers

  • @WindowsXP_YT
    @WindowsXP_YT 4 роки тому +4

    The primes of the form (3^p)-4:
    5, 23, 239, etc.

  • @Sengial
    @Sengial 8 років тому +46

    Holy shit that's fucking big

    • @quarkyquasar893
      @quarkyquasar893 8 років тому +2

      +ytYAEeLxmEYb As compared to infinite...

    • @draevonmay7704
      @draevonmay7704 8 років тому

      +Red Sniper
      Well, infinitesimals are actual things, used in calculus, and that is definitely not one, but yes compared to infinity it is a small number.

    • @quarkyquasar893
      @quarkyquasar893 8 років тому

      Draevon May Well thanks for info but i already know that... :P

    • @draevonmay7704
      @draevonmay7704 8 років тому

      +Red Sniper
      Assumed you did. I'm used dealing with highschoolers. Not the brightest bunch of people 😆

    • @quarkyquasar893
      @quarkyquasar893 8 років тому

      Draevon May XD

  • @mistycremo9301
    @mistycremo9301 8 років тому +2

    You should do Pascal's triangle and then highlight the multiples of any whole number. Four is my personal favorite, but I only tested 1-5 and with limit space.

  • @supercute590
    @supercute590 8 років тому

    I love his enthusiasm for prime numbers

  • @24canidkasi
    @24canidkasi 8 років тому +76

    Reading that 2^74207281 book would be much more entertaning than reading Twilight.

  • @Moleda1986
    @Moleda1986 4 роки тому +4

    My math expertise is limited to high school algebra. I was always pretty bad at math. And yet I find your videos so interesting! I could watch them for hours!

  • @Cannongabang
    @Cannongabang 8 років тому

    this is probably the best video

  • @fcvgarcia
    @fcvgarcia 2 роки тому

    Awesome!!! Thanks for the magic!

  • @nbp2015
    @nbp2015 7 років тому +23

    Actual title: "The Biggest Number Anyone's Bothered Proving is Prime"

    • @Shyguy5104
      @Shyguy5104 3 роки тому +1

      that's a lot of numbers!

  • @sahildalvi6892
    @sahildalvi6892 8 років тому +3

    a very interesting video...something i didn't know...but something i always wondered how they did it...
    i have 2 questions
    1. what is the mathematical proof that lucas-lehmer sequence filters out prime numbers
    2. what is the use of finding bigger and bigger prime numbers?
    thankyou :-)

  • @MathBuz
    @MathBuz 5 років тому +2

    Please provide a reference for your statement “2^127 - 1 is the biggest prime founded by hand”
    I am working as maths teacher.. And I really appreciate your efforts..

  • @MilesEques
    @MilesEques 3 роки тому

    not sure what you'll make of this, but this video inspired me to install Folding@Home

  • @aleb8243
    @aleb8243 7 років тому +3

    Ryan Lochte explaining prime numbers
    Now I've seen everything

  • @ylette
    @ylette 8 років тому +99

    Wonder what the biggest prime is where all the numbers below it have been checked.

    • @GreatOutdoors1
      @GreatOutdoors1 8 років тому +18

      they've checked up to around 10^18. I think they've gone a bit further but haven't gotten to 10^19 yet.

    • @jordanlynch571
      @jordanlynch571 8 років тому +5

      +Cruzer Since doing so is easiest based on a sieve, once you know the list up to that point, the next is easy to find. Too hard to define a specific point for that reason, and thus little reason to even search.

    • @gordontaylor2815
      @gordontaylor2815 8 років тому +4

      +xunile1 But remember they (Gimps) are only checking one type of prime - there may be other types which haven't been checked up to that range yet.

    • @GreatOutdoors1
      @GreatOutdoors1 8 років тому +5

      +Gordon Taylor the numbers that GIMPS is searching for are way larger than 10^18, all primes up to 10^18 have been found.

    • @spinn4ntier487
      @spinn4ntier487 7 років тому

      Cruzer i can check the largest ones conceivable factors
      2=no
      3=no
      6972=no
      We know it is a prime, so we know all of its potential factors aren't it's factors

  • @Handwriting_R
    @Handwriting_R 5 місяців тому

    Love your channel 😍 go on

  • @MM-qd4lh
    @MM-qd4lh 5 років тому +1

    This all hurts my head, but I can't look away. It's as cool as trying to follow the logic of the Mandelbrot sets. Like chasing fireflies as a child, sheer joy!

    • @hymnodyhands
      @hymnodyhands 2 роки тому

      Always nice to meet a fellow traveler, chasing fireflies through the fields of math!

  • @neelmodi5791
    @neelmodi5791 8 років тому +76

    Next largest prime: 2^74207281+1. The proof is left as an exercise to the reader.

    • @theleftuprightatsoldierfield
      @theleftuprightatsoldierfield 6 років тому +26

      Neel Modi I know for a fact 2^74207281+1 is not prime. It is divisible by 3

    • @void9720
      @void9720 5 років тому +4

      If 2^74207281-1 is prime, and 2^74207281 is an even number with no factor of 2 - then 2^74207281 must divide by 3.

    • @santhosh_se5476
      @santhosh_se5476 3 роки тому

      @@theleftuprightatsoldierfield Ohh man u spoiled his attempt for a joke😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣 Anyway that was perfect ....

    • @sgssergio
      @sgssergio 3 роки тому

      Jajja, two year ago discovered other Mersenne prime with more than 24 millons of digit. The gigant Merssenes primes numbers discovered in the last 20 years was a distributed work of millons of personal and server comouter around the world using the Primes95 application conected in the GIMP project.

  • @avsn
    @avsn 8 років тому +112

    Where can i get a copy and how much?

    • @BandidoDescalzo
      @BandidoDescalzo 8 років тому +152

      +A V Sandi Nack $2^74,207,281 -1 USD

    • @avsn
      @avsn 8 років тому +5

      +josiah O'Neill smart aleck :)

    • @avsn
      @avsn 8 років тому +1

      +YipYapYoup I thought your dollars were bimetal. :)

    • @thesimen13
      @thesimen13 8 років тому

      +A V Sandi Nack commenting for captain

    • @oldcowbb
      @oldcowbb 8 років тому

      +A V Sandi Nack mathsgear, maybe

  • @BrenTen628
    @BrenTen628 7 років тому

    The "WHAAAT!" from behind the camera at 2:00 is perfect.

  • @easysolutions3312
    @easysolutions3312 Рік тому

    Just read the first volume, it was heartbreaking😢😢😢 best book.

  • @jblistener7491
    @jblistener7491 8 років тому +68

    So basically he wants us all to use G.I.M.P.S. so that he can find the really big numbers using PrimeGrid. Well, I won't fall for that trap! :)
    On an unrelated note, was anybody else watching him wave the marker around, and waiting for the moment when he accidentally marked up his new prime number books and lost it on camera?

  • @SandraMarkusTrachsel
    @SandraMarkusTrachsel 7 років тому +3

    Dear Mr. Parker, please allow me to ask you, what is the biggest prime number up to which all previous prime numbers have been found. I assume that the hunt for big primes is leaving huge gaps of undiscovered primes. Thank you very much and best regards, Markus

  • @osamaghaedy1869
    @osamaghaedy1869 3 роки тому

    Best video I’ve ever seen in youtube

  • @inujosha
    @inujosha 6 років тому

    Another great video. Only thing is the audio levels are a little low

  • @prae197
    @prae197 8 років тому +4

    Brady's reaction at 2:01 though

  • @seanm7445
    @seanm7445 8 років тому +30

    Any chance of a video on Germain primes?

  • @rsingh2083
    @rsingh2083 8 років тому

    Smart combover ;-) & great video

  • @eddyhans5365
    @eddyhans5365 4 роки тому

    Nice explanation.

  • @cmopmoemo
    @cmopmoemo 8 років тому +10

    Could you explain a proof of the test you used?

  • @rikschaaf
    @rikschaaf 8 років тому +59

    What is the biggest prime for which we know all the previous primes?

    • @janeemmanuel8885
      @janeemmanuel8885 5 років тому +7

      Rik Schaaf 356787 42157899865323466755443278887765556789000009887665433457788839387474738289254333564215789986532346675544323585858696969699988665323567898531245685652413131453645

    • @sergejkeser7270
      @sergejkeser7270 5 років тому +181

      @@janeemmanuel8885 I mean, if you are gona smack your head on the keyboard in order to guess an answer to his question, at least make sure it does not end with digit 5 lol

    • @zach7009
      @zach7009 5 років тому +14

      Sergej - That's hilarious! I love it.

    • @deepghosh7626
      @deepghosh7626 5 років тому

      @@sergejkeser7270 😂😂

    • @Azide_zx
      @Azide_zx 4 роки тому +1

      @@sergejkeser7270 dont forget about the random space 7 digits through

  • @npip99
    @npip99 5 років тому +1

    9:00 Note that subtracting off as an algorithm wouldn't qualify as "Not that bad", as it would be very bad. But you can binary search the largest multiple of the modulus that's less than the target number, and then subtract that from the target number.

  • @JMUDoc
    @JMUDoc 3 роки тому +1

    That number has got a carbon footprint thanks to Matt.

  • @SCMabridged
    @SCMabridged 5 років тому +24

    I'm so conflicted: on one hand, this is so mathematically beautiful; on the other, it's witchcraft!!

  • @justagerman140
    @justagerman140 7 років тому +8

    I love how the books are printed on brown paper

  • @luccarawlyk3423
    @luccarawlyk3423 8 років тому

    I wonder if we're getting a Collatz Conjecture (3x+1) video sometime soon ^^

  • @Fritzyboo
    @Fritzyboo 23 дні тому +1

    I thought he actually divided it by three.... By hand.
    I mean of all people, Matt would.
    But then I remembered it's prime.

  • @MeLoonn
    @MeLoonn 8 років тому +92

    So, is 2 ^"THAT monster prime" -1 also a prime ? XD

    • @yamizetsubou8414
      @yamizetsubou8414 8 років тому +122

      +Plasma Phi My calculator says "ERROR" so it might be

    • @unvergebeneid
      @unvergebeneid 8 років тому +16

      +Plasma Phi Can I get back to you on that? ;)

    • @a2aaron
      @a2aaron 8 років тому +1

      Maybe. 2^n - 1 is prime if n is prime, but if n is prime, 2^n - 1 may be composite

    • @robbieelvin4951
      @robbieelvin4951 8 років тому +2

      +Plasma Phi It would need to be checked.

    • @funnyids3D
      @funnyids3D 8 років тому

      +Plasma Phi I was wondering the exact same

  • @aednil
    @aednil 8 років тому +88

    how long until this number is used in encryption?

    • @TheBalfrog
      @TheBalfrog 8 років тому +24

      +aednil Considering banks use 2048 bit numbers now and modern computing would take thousands of years to break the discrete logarithm problems, it could be a while!

    • @levolta
      @levolta 8 років тому +14

      +James Purcell I'm not 100% certain of how encryption works, but iirc, this number is even useless for encryption, because it is so well known. It doesn't sound completely right, but I heard it from various sources.

    • @TheBalfrog
      @TheBalfrog 8 років тому +15

      levolta The most basic variation is RSA, so in RSA I'd tell you (n,e) = (65,7), e is your encryption component, and n is the product of 2 primes p and q. Obvious with a number this small you can see, p = 13 q = 5.
      Now if you want to find the decryption component, you do e * d = 1 mod (p-1)(q-1) , so 7 * d = 1mod 48. Again as it's a simple example you can spot if d = 7, then 7*7 = 49mod 48 = 1mod 48.
      So if I give you a message say M = 3. 3^e mod n = C your ciphertext. So 3^7 = 2187 = (33*65) + 42 mod 65 = 42mod 65. So after encryption of a message M = 3, we get a ciphertext C = 42.
      If you want to decrypt this, you can do C^d mod n, so 42^7 mod 65 = 3mod 65.
      So a message raised to the power of the encryption component becomes ciphertext. a ciphertext raised to the power of the decryption component is your original message.
      If your primes become huge (Banks use 1024 bit primes), these numbers are crazy big, and it is computationally infeasible to find the primes P and Q if given the product N. If they can't find P and Q they can't find the decryption component and you're messages and bank details ect are safe.
      Because this prime is so large it isn't really an issue, and won't be for a large amount of time. Banks at the moment use two 1024 bit prime numbers, to make a 2048 bit product N, this takes current generation computers millions of years of constant computation to brute force. I doubt banks will ever use a prime this large in security based systems such as RSA.

    • @catStone92
      @catStone92 8 років тому +1

      +James Purcell what levolta meant is that if you did decide to use this specific prime, people would already know one of the components, so you already have the job done for you, you successfully decrypted an RSA key
      the strength of RSA comes from not being able to find the components in useful time, but if you know one of them, the job is already one, it's a linear operation to find out the other one and you can guess the private key.

    • @TheBalfrog
      @TheBalfrog 8 років тому +2

      Pedro Gusmão While that is true, banks don't tell you what either of the primes are, if they started using a 44million bit prime people would get suspicious sure, but as more primes are discovered and none mersenne primes are discovered through things like prime grid theoretically a well known prime could be used, but it would be dangerous as you've said

  • @sagartirthasengupta852
    @sagartirthasengupta852 6 років тому

    This is the craziest thing I've ever seen!

  • @WWLinkMasterX
    @WWLinkMasterX 5 років тому +1

    Fun little related thing this made me realize is that: (2^(n*4)) -1 is divisible by 5.
    So you should never waste your time with a factor that's divisible by four.

  • @omfgmouse
    @omfgmouse 8 років тому +3

    12:12 Creeper says hi!

  • @brianmckay1256
    @brianmckay1256 7 років тому +10

    Hi Matt
    Musical Prime
    if you list from 1 to 24 in colums in ms excel, then cary on counting from 25 on the next row down althe way to 48, then continue this patten in rows and columns, all the primes line up, and make interesting patterns. Then is you make every 5 rows a music staff then you can play the prime numbers on a piano keyboard. you can chose how long or short the note is and the tempo of course, It makes your brain hurt but an interesting tune!!!!!!!
    have fun regards
    Brian the novis (just out to have fun)

  • @juanjoglvz7
    @juanjoglvz7 8 років тому

    wow this comes amazingly handy to program anything related to mathemathics.

  • @sgssergio
    @sgssergio 3 роки тому

    Two year ago discovered other Mersenne prime with more than 24 millons of digit. The gigant Merssenes primes numbers discovered in the last 20 years was a distributed work of millons of personal and server comouter around the world using the Primes95 application conected in the GIMP project.

  • @loudandlearnt1758
    @loudandlearnt1758 7 років тому +3

    Great video! Prime numbers are so fascinating, I actually made a video proof about how there was no largest. We'll be looking for the next biggest one forever :D

  • @spencerlemens9321
    @spencerlemens9321 8 років тому +3

    So now since the exponent has to be prime some quick use this prime as the exponent and find a ridiculously large one!

    • @RanEncounter
      @RanEncounter 8 років тому +1

      The computing power needed to check that would be astronomical.

    • @thelatestartosrs
      @thelatestartosrs 8 років тому +1

      +SPENCER LEMENS 2^(2^74207281 -1) -1 ftw

    • @frustbox
      @frustbox 8 років тому +1

      +SPENCER LEMENS Sadly, the exponent being prime is only a necessary but not sufficient. Therefor the converse is not true. Example: M11. It's a Mersenne number with a prime exponent: 2^11 - 1 = 2047 but the result is not prime since 2047 = 23 * 89. It's still a good idea to use this prime as exponent and eventually it will be checked at some point ... it may even be prime, who knows -- but it's not guaranteed to be a prime.

  • @panographic
    @panographic 2 роки тому +1

    Frank Nelson Cole was the guy who factored (2^67 - 1) as 193,707,721 × 761,838,257,287. It only took him 3 years of Sundays.

  • @osraneslipy
    @osraneslipy 5 років тому +1

    Dude, you speak 3times faster than my soundcard can handle :D

  • @Qermaq
    @Qermaq 7 років тому +9

    So 7 = 2^3 - 1, so the exponent is 3, so subtract 1 to get to the 2nd position for 14. 14 is a multiple of 7, so 7 is definitely prime. I got that. Therefore, 3 = 2^2 - 1, so we go to the 1st position for 4. 4 is not a multiple of 3. So 3 is definitely not prime. What did I do wrong?

    • @chaimmarks2663
      @chaimmarks2663 7 років тому +1

      Qermaq they are different types of primes.

    • @toanoradian
      @toanoradian 7 років тому

      3 and 7 are different types of primes? They're both Mersenne, no?

    • @Qermaq
      @Qermaq 7 років тому

      Plus if they are different, this video did not explain this in the least. It remains that something fishy is going on.

    • @chaimmarks2663
      @chaimmarks2663 7 років тому

      they mentioned in the end that it's a certain type of prime but they didn't talk about it in length. and yeah 3 is a Mersenne prime but i don't know how to explain it really. anyway it's not fishy lol the worst that happend was a mistake in one place

    • @piguy314159
      @piguy314159 7 років тому +5

      According to Wikipedia, the proof of the test assumes the power is an ODD prime.

  • @josh34578
    @josh34578 8 років тому +26

    Right, so WHY does the Lucas-Lehmer test work?

  • @alyk4683
    @alyk4683 6 років тому

    It's incredible that there are still so many prime numbers the higher you get. You'd think that we'd have fewer of them as you go because there are more options for the number to be divided by.

  • @srquint
    @srquint Рік тому

    Fabulous Presentation!
    What is the largest Prime Number where EVERY Prime number less than that Prime Number it is known (no skipped Prime Numbers)?