Is this a shout out to Anons from Elon ? What do you think 🤔
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The Musketeer
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One does not simply factor an 1800 digit number. The block is 60 x 30 characters. Done in 30?
Did Elon make this post or find it somewhere else? I trust that Elon wouldn't lie about something as important as math, but it is entirely possible that this number is not prime. I've put similar similar combinations of 1, 8, and 7 into software and most were not prime. That's not unexpected, at big numbers primes become quite rare. All I really want to know is if there are any factors under 10 billion or so. If not, then it might be prime. And does the 7 change that?
You can not generally change a digit in a number to make it prime. That is not how that works.
To prove this number is prime, you would have to run an algorithm on it. In Python or Matlab you could invoke the method "isprime()" and input this number. However, this number is much bigger than any 64-bit integer. I am aware of libraries that can calculate with numbers contained in strings, which makes it possible to work with 1800 digit numbers, but it would be rather slow in comparison.
I think your best hope to prove this is real is to look into existing databases of prime numbers. The largest prime number found so far has almost 25 million (!) digits.
I could have a look at some Python code and run some algos to see if this 1800 digit is truly a prime number.
Also: "To find whether a larger number is prime or not, add all the digits in a number, if the sum is divisible by 3 it is not a prime number. Except 2 and 3, all the other prime numbers can be expressed in the general form as 6n + 1 or 6n - 1, where n is the natural number."
The sum of the digits is 3430, which is not divisible by 3, meaning the number might be a prime.