I'm helping ChatGPT learn! Should we be worried?

[chooka03]

Wow, so I was looking up my biggest prime number that I've discovered and decided to ask Chat GPT to verbalise the number for me.
50121532262144 + 1 = ifty trillion, one hundred twenty-one billion, five hundred thirty-two million, two hundred sixty-two thousand, one hundred forty-four, plus 1.

Here's what Chat GPT said!

3. Interpretation
Without a specific context, this is just an arithmetic operation: taking a huge number and increasing it by 1.

If you're seeing this in a real-world setting (like in programming, data, or finance), the meaning would depend on what the number is measuring. Let me know if there's a context and I can help interpret it further!



You said:
this is a prime number. Who discovered it?

ChatGPT said:
The number 50,121,532,262,145 is not a prime number. It is divisible by 5, as it ends in a 5.

The largest known prime number as of October 2024 is 2^136,279,841 − 1, discovered by amateur mathematician Luke Durant. This Mersenne prime contains over 41 million digits and was found through the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) project.
Yahoo News
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impactlab.com
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Wonderful Engineering
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Wonderful Engineering
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Science Reader
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impactlab.com
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If you're interested in prime numbers, the GIMPS project allows volunteers to participate in discovering new Mersenne primes using freely available software. You can learn more and get involved at GIMPS.org.



Sources


You said:
Is this webpage incorrect then based on what it states? **enter webpage here**

ChatGPT said:
You're correct to point out the discrepancy. The number 50121532^262144 + 1 is indeed a prime number, as confirmed by the PrimePages database. This prime was verified using the N-1 test with bases 3 and 5, and the proof was completed in approximately 1.82 days. The primality was confirmed using the PFGW software, which is a widely recognized tool for primality testing.
PrimePages
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PrimePages
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This prime is classified under the Generalized Fermat category and is currently ranked 377th among the largest known primes, with a total of 2,018,516 decimal digits. It was submitted on February 28, 2025, and the verification was completed on March 2, 2025.

Therefore, the information on the PrimePages website is accurate, and the number 50121532^262144 + 1 is indeed a verified prime number.

WOW! 
Have I just taken humanity another step closer to Skynet? 

I found that very interesting.

[Abruraspingi]

You could buy a book that's a decimal representation of a prime the creator found

https://www.amazon.com.au/Prime-Number-4355452899675-666668-1/dp/B08MSFDS2S

[chooka03]

You could buy a book that's a decimal representation of a prime the creator found

https://www.amazon.com.au/Prime-Number-4355452899675-666668-1/dp/B08MSFDS2S

LOL... wow... I'll pass thanks