Talk:Emirp

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[edit] Largest known emirp

I suggest adding this to the article:

As of February 2007, the largest known emirp is 10³⁹²⁹ − 571624798 × 10¹⁹⁶⁰ − 1, found by Jens Kruse Andersen in 2003.^[1]

I am Jens Kruse Andersen so I suggest it here per WP:COI. PrimeHunter 16:59, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

Well this has been here for a while. Apparently no one has objected, and the source given looks pretty good. I'm taking the liberty to add it to this article. -FrankTobia (talk) 16:41, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, but I should have updated this suggestion. "As of February 2007" makes it correct, but the end of the source shows I improved it in October, to 10^10006+941992101*10^4999+1. The source doesn't directly say "largest known" about the new emirp, but the introduction says "I’ll keep here a list of the 10 largest reversible & non-palindrome primes.". If it's acceptable as the largest known then my replacement suggestion is:

As of December 2007, the largest known emirp is 10¹⁰⁰⁰⁶+941992101×10⁴⁹⁹⁹+1, found by Jens Kruse Andersen in October 2007.^[2]

PrimeHunter (talk) 23:46, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

I've updated accordingly. As a practical matter, and to best serve the encyclopedia going forward, I think you should feel free to make these sorts of edits yourself so they don't languish on talk pages for months. In reading WP:COI it seems like, as long as you stick to verifiable facts with solid sources, you shouldn't have to worry too much about COI issues. I would suggest making the change, noting the potential conflict of interest on the talk page, and referencing it in your edit summary. And thanks again for the good info on primes! -FrankTobia (talk) 11:04, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks again. I could have made the new update when somebody else had accepted the source and considered the result worth mentioning. But the source is not optimal, I have said elsewhere I will not add new potential COI material, I'm telling many others at the help desk to avoid COI and make talk page suggestions instead, and I may soon be admin and would like to set an example. If my results are not important enough for others to notice and add without me suggesting it, then it might look bad if I added a lot of them without discussion. But another time I may notify a math editor if a suggestion is ignored for months on a rarely edited page. PrimeHunter (talk) 15:40, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

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