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Addendum and correction to radio technology and the theory of numbers

✍ Scribed by Balth. Van Der Pol

Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1953
Tongue
English
Weight
24 KB
Volume
256
Category
Article
ISSN
0016-0032

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✦ Synopsis

It was stated in this lecture that the greatest prime number, known at the time, was recently calculated by Dr. D. H. Lehmer, Los Angeles. This number is (21279 -1). The number of digits of this prime number, when written in the decimal system, is 386 (not 397 as erroneously given in the paper).

Since the above lecture was given, Dr. Lehmer has succeeded in finding even two greater prime numbers (see : "Math. Tables and Other Aids to Computation," January, 1953, page 72). They are (222o3 -1) and (222sl -1). In the usual decimal notation these numbers contain 664 and 687 digits, respectively.

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The subject of my lecture combines two sciences which, at first sight, may perhaps seem utterly unrelated. In fact, I do not know of any literature which suggests a relationship between these two domains. I refer on the one hand to Radio Technology in its widest sense, a subject about which we have