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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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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': 80235 entries, last updated: 5/12/2008 at 1:50 CDT.
Total data length 7597628 bytes (average prime entry length 94 Dynamic)
This table stores the list of primes
Table 'person': 989 entries, last updated: 5/11/2008 at 18:50 CDT.
Total data length 276008 bytes (average person entry length 278 Dynamic)
This table stores the list of persons, programs and projects
Table 'log': 15738 entries, last updated: 5/11/2008 at 18:23 CDT.
Total data length 3465496 bytes (average log entry length 207 Dynamic)
Logs changes to the database
Table 'code': 1474 entries, last updated: 5/12/2008 at 1:50 CDT.
Total data length 371000 bytes (average code entry length 251 Dynamic)
This table stores links from the codes to the provers
Table 'archival_tag': 12461 entries, last updated: 5/9/2008 at 3:20 CDT.
Total data length 805680 bytes (average archival_tag entry length 64 Dynamic)
Tags to indicate type of prime, class rank and weights...
Total length: 12515812.