Prime Numbers which Divide Sum of All Lesser Primes/Mistake/First Edition
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Source Work
1986: David Wells: Curious and Interesting Numbers:
- The Dictionary
- $71$
Mistake
- The numbers $5$, $71$ and $369119$ are the only known numbers less than $2,000,000$ that divide the sum of the primes less than them.
Correction
There are three problems here:
- $(1): \quad 2$ is missing.
- $(2): \quad$ At the time of writing, a further term in this sequence had been discovered, that is, $415 \, 074 \, 643$, but David Wells appears to have failed to notice it.
Both the above issues were corrected for 1997: David Wells: Curious and Interesting Numbers (2nd ed.).
- $(3): \quad$ Note that the sentence itself should have read:
- The numbers $5$, $71$ and $369119$ are the only known prime numbers less than $2,000,000$ that divide the sum of the primes less than them.
- (emphasis added)
Sources
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