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PrimeGrid Sophie Germain Search

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The Sophie Germain Search was a PrimeGrid sub-project searching for Sophie Germain and Twin prime pairs. It was launched in 2009 as a successor to the Twin Prime Search sub-project. The project ended in December 2023.[1]

Search range

The most recent iteration of the project searched for prime numbers of the form k•21290000-1, for k ≤ 1013.

Sophie Germain pairs take the form k•21290001-1 or k•21289999-1, and Twin pairs take the form k•21290000+1.[2]

The project reached its end point, k = 1013, in December 2023. (Live status)

The first version of the project searched for prime numbers k•2n-1 for 666,666 ≤ n ≤ 666,691 with varying ranges of k values up to 38.5 • 1012.

PrimeGrid Forum thread is not current, still data for n=666666 given (k ≤ 41 • 1012).

Found primes

The project found over 12200 primes, with 2 Sophie Germain pairs and 2 Twin pairs. Each of these discoveries are currently the largest and second largest known pairs in their respective categories.

Sophie Germain pairs

  1. 2618163402417•21290000-1 and 2618163402417•21290001-1 on 2016-02-29 (official announcement)
  2. 18543637900515•2666667-1 and 18543637900515•2666668-1 on 2012-04-09 (official announcement)

Twin pairs

  1. 2996863034895•21290000-1 and 2996863034895•21290000+1 on 2016-09-14 (official announcement)
  2. 3756801695685•2666669-1 and 3756801695685•2666669+1 on 2011-12-25 (official announcement)

References

See also

External links

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