PrimePages
The PrimePages is a website about prime numbers maintained by Chris Caldwell at the University of Tennessee at Martin.[2]
![]() Homepage as it appeared on January 10, 2023 | |
Type of site | Educational Database |
|---|---|
| Available in | English |
| Headquarters | Martin, Tennessee, United States |
| Owner | Chris Caldwell University of Tennessee at Martin |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | Optional (required for submissions only)[1] |
| Current status | Active |
The site maintains the list of the "5,000 largest known primes", selected smaller primes of special forms, and many "top twenty" lists for primes of various forms. As of February 2023, the 5,000th prime has around 538,000 digits.[3]
The PrimePages has articles on primes and primality testing. It includes "The Prime Glossary" with articles on hundreds of glosses related to primes, and "Prime Curios!" with thousands of curios about specific numbers.
The database started as a list of titanic primes (primes with at least 1000 decimal digits) by Samuel Yates. In subsequent years, the whole top-5,000 has consisted of gigantic primes (primes with at least 10,000 decimal digits). Primes of special forms are kept on the current lists if they are titanic and in the top-20 or top-5 for their form.
See also
References
- "Privacy Statement for The Prime Page". primes.utm.edu. Retrieved 10 January 2023.
- "Chris Caldwell". University of Tennessee at Martin.
- "The Prime Database: Database Search Query". The PrimePages.. Retrieved on 2018-02-12.
- Chimes, Art (21 July 2006). "Website of the Week — The Prime Pages". VOA News. Voice of America. Retrieved 2010-10-21.
