### sevlll's blog

By sevlll, history, 5 months ago,

Hi!

Today I was surfing Wikipedia and came across this article — Palindromic prime

This article says that the largest known palindromic prime is $10^{474500}$ + $999 * 10^{237249} + 1$.

Well it is easy to see that this number is palindrome, but... why is it prime?

I don't find any proof, and I am really curios — how to proof that this number is prime, when number is quite big?

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 » 5 months ago, # | ← Rev. 2 →   +41 In general, it's quite hard. There is a result from 2002 for which later authors got the Godel prize which proves that primality testing can in fact be done in polynomial time, check this wikipedia link: AKS primality test. There is a lot of advanced research, especially for the uses in cryptography, and the answer to your question is likely not simple (the prime you mention is huge). I am curious if someone has a more optimistic answer...
 » 5 months ago, # |   0 Primality Tests for Large Primes : https://primes.utm.edu/prove/.