About

This website is a personal project related to integer numbers created by a mathematician. It started just as an attempt to explore the limits of the ancient Eratosthenes Sieve. There is plenty more done since that. Currently I am trying to understand the general number field sieve (GNFS), which will come in future iterations.

This website code can be found in github.

The primes page is inspired by https://bigprimes.org/. As they do, we test primes and generate them using the Strengthened Baillie-PSW and the Miller-Rabin primality tests.

The Tree and Series page are inspired by the Mathologer.

2**136279841 - 1 is the biggest known prime, a prime with 41024320 digits. Read more about it https://www.mersenne.org.

Some results and experiments regarding Mersenne Primes and the GIMPS project are planned.