Largest n in Prime[n]

Asked Aug 28 '23 at 23:49

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What is the largest integer $n$ that the function Prime[n] can take?

edited Aug 28 '23 at 23:59

MarcoB

asked Aug 28 '23 at 23:49

Jamai-Con

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Does this answer your question? What is so special about Prime?. The documentation of Prime::largp still reports around $2^{42}$ as a potential limit, but the exact number can be implementation-dependent. – MarcoB Aug 29 '23 at 00:01
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Haha, this made me laugh. My mac pooped out somewhere around 10^17. When I tried 10^18 my kernel crashed and I got this message – ydd Aug 29 '23 at 00:27
@MarcoB: Thanks a bunch! – Jamai-Con Aug 29 '23 at 01:08

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