17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
On Mon, 11 Apr 1994, Peter Wayner wrote:
Is there a largest prime number? If there is then collect all primes, p1...pn and multiply them together p=p1*p2*...*pn. p+1 is not divisible by p1...pn. Therefore p+1 is a prime. Therefore there is no largest prime number.
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