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Are you looking for the largest known primes?  Lists of records?  Information on who finds the biggest primes (and how?)  You are at the right place!  Here we keep the list of the 5000 largest known primes, updated hourly (hundreds of new primes are submitted every month).  We are the world's primary source to the current prime number records.

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  1. The current list of primes
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Note: these are the largest known primes--so they are very big (most have tens of thousands of digits!)  If you want smaller primes, say the first ten thousand primes or first hundred million primes, see the lists available from the Prime Links++ pages.

Table 'prime': 85970 entries, last updated: 11/22/2009 at 12:20 CDT.
Total data length 8115892 bytes (average prime entry length 94 Dynamic)
This table stores the list of primes
Table 'person': 1351 entries, last updated: 11/22/2009 at 11:20 CDT.
Total data length 332760 bytes (average person entry length 246 Dynamic)
This table stores the list of persons, programs and projects
Table 'log': 35930 entries, last updated: 11/22/2009 at 12:21 CDT.
Total data length 7636788 bytes (average log entry length 212 Dynamic)
Logs changes to the database
Table 'code': 2027 entries, last updated: 11/22/2009 at 12:20 CDT.
Total data length 693688 bytes (average code entry length 342 Dynamic)
This table stores links from the codes to the provers
Table 'archival_tag': 12820 entries, last updated: 11/22/2009 at 6:50 CDT.
Total data length 827968 bytes (average archival_tag entry length 64 Dynamic)
Tags to indicate type of prime, class rank and weights...
Total length: 17607096.