Pair of Large Twin Primes/Historical Note

Historical Note on Pair of Large Twin Primes

David Wells reports in his Curious and Interesting Numbers of $1986$ that this pair of twin primes is the largest reported on by Richard K. Guy in his Unsolved Problems in Number Theory of $1981$.

It is reported that they were discovered by A.O.L. Atkin and N.W. Rickert in $1979$.


Apparently they also discovered the pair $694\,513\,810 \times 2^{2304} \pm 1$ at around the same time.


Sources

  • 1979: A.O.L. Atkin and N.W. Rickert: On a larger pair of twin primes: Abstract 79T-A132 (Not. Amer. Math. Soc. Vol. 26: p. A-373)
  • 1981: Richard K. Guy: Unsolved Problems in Number Theory
  • 1986: David Wells: Curious and Interesting Numbers ... (previous) ... (next): $1159142985 \times 2^{2304} \pm 1$
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