-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- I hope this is not extremely already know,... but, seeing on the list a sig with someone claiming to have the 'last' prime, I played a bit this nite and searched for the *first* alphabetically sorted prime (once written as spelled, sorted like with unix's sort) dependending on the language : Easiest: English : 11 : eleven A bit more fun : German : 811 (dunno how to write it, but it starts with an "a") Exotic one : slovenian: 10019 desettisocdevetnajst And..... the tricky one, which I hope is the good one (challenge: find one 'before') : French (and possibly spanish/italian,...too) : 105 105 000 105 167 (it spells cent cinq mille cent cinq milliards cent cinq mille cent soixante sept) [note that 'billion' is not used for numbers in common language, and that soixante-dix has a - and not a space :-) ] More languages ? better results anyone :-) ? Regards dl ps: I used gnu MP lib for my hack when I hit the 2^32 limit, but it's rather slow... (ok, its prolly due to my lasy prime algo too, but...) is there some well-known fast mp lib to play around with primes ? (should I look and extract PGP's ?) - -- Laurent Demailly * http://hplyot.obspm.fr/~dl/ * Linux|PGP|Gnu|Tcl|... Freedom 105 105 000 105 167 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2i Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.3, an Emacs/PGP interface iQCVAgUBMFEKvXk52/beodHxAQH+cgQAwUzDczvIzXaBzYx/Q5oerXFZ/ABDjp8b Sz20qgBmB3BP9jE8GbibqIF1FOExS2r3irg4PQHhUwuX7wWT/deo8KzWMrb3C2fi X3kMbtWM9hQNHJ1mRpAE41M1NuHgk8xM43WbkZcLyYOPXXWSAAs0qc+bdNamtUDT iujkF9fQxck= =mkaz -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----