Factorial primes

The Prime Pages keeps a list of the 5000 largest known primes, plus a few each of certain selected archivable forms and classes. These forms are defined in this collection's home page.

This page is about one of those forms.

(up) Definitions and Notes

Factorial primes come in two flavors: factorial plus one: n!+1, and factorial minus one: n!-1. The form n!+1 is prime for n=1, 2, 3, 11, 27, 37, 41, 73, 77, 116, 154, 320, 340, 399, 427, 872, 1477 and 6380 (21507 digits). (See [Borning72], [Templer80], [BCP82], and [Caldwell95].) The form n!-1 is prime for n=3, 4, 6, 7, 12, 14, 30, 32, 33, 38, 94, 166, 324, 379, 469, 546, 974, 1963, 3507, 3610 and 6917 (23560 digits). Both forms have been tested to n=10000 [CG2000].

There is more information of primorial and factorial primes in [Dubner87] and [Dubner89a].

(up) Record Primes of this Type

rankprime digitswhowhencomment
1422429! + 1 2193027 p425 Feb 2022 Factorial
2308084! + 1 1557176 p425 Jan 2022 Factorial
3288465! + 1 1449771 p3 Jan 2022 Factorial
4208003! - 1 1015843 p394 Jul 2016 Factorial
5150209! + 1 712355 p3 Oct 2011 Factorial
6147855! - 1 700177 p362 Sep 2013 Factorial
7110059! + 1 507082 p312 Jun 2011 Factorial
8103040! - 1 471794 p301 Dec 2010 Factorial
994550! - 1 429390 p290 Oct 2010 Factorial
1034790! - 1 142891 p85 May 2002 Factorial
1126951! + 1 107707 p65 May 2002 Factorial
1221480! - 1 83727 p65 Sep 2001 Factorial
136917! - 1 23560 g1 Nov 1998 Factorial
146380! + 1 21507 g1 Nov 1998 Factorial
153610! - 1 11277 C Oct 1993 Factorial
163507! - 1 10912 C Nov 1992 Factorial
171963! - 1 5614 CD Nov 1992 Factorial
181477! + 1 4042 D Jan 1985 Factorial
19974! - 1 2490 CD Nov 1992 Factorial
20872! + 1 2188 D Jan 1984 Factorial

(up) References

BCP82
J. P. Buhler, R. E. Crandall and M. A. Penk, "Primes of the form n! ± 1 and 2 · 3 · 5 ... p ± 1," Math. Comp., 38:158 (1982) 639--643.  Corrigendum in Math. Comp. 40 (1983), 727.  MR 83c:10006
Borning72
A. Borning, "Some results for k! ± 1 and 2 · 3 · 5 ... p ± 1," Math. Comp., 26 (1972) 567--570.  MR 46:7133
Caldwell95
C. Caldwell, "On the primality of n! ± 1 and 2 · 3 · 5 ... p ± 1," Math. Comp., 64:2 (1995) 889--890.  MR 95g:11003
CG2000
C. Caldwell and Y. Gallot, "On the primality of n! ± 1 and 2 × 3 × 5 × ... × p ± 1," Math. Comp., 71:237 (2002) 441--448.  MR 2002g:11011 (Abstract available) (Annotation available)
Dubner87
H. Dubner, "Factorial and primorial primes," J. Recreational Math., 19:3 (1987) 197--203.
Krizek2008
M. Křížek and L. Somer, "Euclidean primes have the minimum number of primitive roots," JP J. Algebra Number Theory Appl., 12:1 (2008) 121--127.  MR2494078
Templer80
M. Templer, "On the primality of k! + 1 and 2 * 3 * 5 * ... * p + 1," Math. Comp., 34 (1980) 303-304.  MR 80j:10010
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