Thibaut Jonckheere <tua### [at] mapsonyahoofr> wrote:
> In my (naive and not very documented) opinion, it should not be so much 
> more that the highest prime known (which seems to be 2^(43.112.609) -1, 

  Not all primes between the largest known prime and 2 are known. I'm
interested in what is the smallest number for which it hasn't been verified
if it's a prime or not.

> At second though, maybe your point is precisely that this smallest 
> number with unknown status can be much *smaller* than the highest prime 
> known ?

  A lot smaller.

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