List of prime numbers
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This is a list of articles about prime numbers. A prime number (or prime) is a natural number greater than 1 that has no divisors other than 1 and itself. By Euclid's theorem, there is an infinite number of prime numbers. Subsets of the prime numbers may be generated with various formulas for primes.
The first 1,000 primes are listed below, followed by lists of notable types of prime numbers in alphabetical order, giving their respective first terms. The number 1 is neither prime nor composite.
The first 1,000 prime numbers
The following table lists the first 1,000 primes, with 20 columns of consecutive primes in each of the 50 rows.
(sequence A000040 in the OEIS).
The Goldbach conjecture verification project reports that it has computed all primes smaller than 4×1018. That means 95,676,260,903,887,607 primes (nearly 1017), but they were not stored.
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