Pair of Titanic Twin Primes/Historical Note
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Historical Note on Pair of Titanic Twin Primes
According to David Wells in his Curious and Interesting Numbers, 2nd ed. of $1997$, this pair of titanic twin primes was discovered by Harvey Dubner on $5$ October $1995$, but this has not been corroborated.
Sources
- Feb. 1996: Harvey Dubner: Numbers Count (Personal Computer World Vol. (unknown): p. (unknown))
- 1997: David Wells: Curious and Interesting Numbers (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): $190,116 \times 3003 \times 10^{5120} - 1$ and $190,116 \times 3003 \times 10^{5120} + 1$