Factorial prime

Factorial prime

A factorial prime is a prime number that is one less or one more than a factorial (all factorials above 1 are even). The first few factorial primes are:

:2 (0! + 1 or 1! + 1), 3 (2! + 1), 5 (3! − 1), 7 (3! + 1), 23 (4! − 1), 719 (6! − 1), 5039 (7! − 1), 39916801 (11! + 1), 479001599 (12! − 1), 87178291199 (14! − 1), ... OEIS|id=A088054

"n"! − 1 is prime for OEIS | id=A002982::"n" = 3, 4, 6, 7, 12, 14, 30, 32, 33, 38, 94, 166, 324, 379, 469, 546, 974, 1963, 3507, 3610, 6917, 21480, 34790, ...

"n"! + 1 is prime for OEIS | id=A002981::"n" = 0, 1, 2, 3, 11, 27, 37, 41, 73, 77, 116, 154, 320, 340, 399, 427, 872, 1477, 6380, 26951, ...

No other factorial primes are known as of 2008.

Absence of factorial primes allows for lengthy runs of consecutive composite numbers, since "n"! ± "k" is divisible by "k" for 2 ≤ "k" ≤ "n". For example, the next prime following 6227020777 = 13! − 23 is 6227020867 = 13! + 67 (a run of 89 consecutive composites). Note that this is not the most efficient way to find large prime gaps. E.g., there are 95 consecutive composites between the primes 360653 and 360749.

External links

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* [http://primes.utm.edu/top20/page.php?id=30 List of largest known factorial primes] from the Prime pages


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