# Checking whether a certain number is prime

Using the primality test on this site, I found that the concatenation of the digit reversal of the first 548 odd primes in the reverse order is a prime!. It is only a 1998-digit prime, but it took more than an hour for the site's calculator to state that it is a prime.

The calculation went super slowly. Could someone here confirm that this result is correct?.

The result I got is 7693749334931393 ... 91713111753.

• Are you asking how to check if a number is prime using Mathematica? If so, try PrimeQ. – bobthechemist Jan 16 at 2:27
• Here's a free (fast) way to test this. It gives True in under a second. It's just building off free Wolfram Cloud stuff so you can give that a check too if you need something else like this. It takes like half a second for the notebook to load, but after that you can do whatever with it. – b3m2a1 Jan 16 at 3:00
• Welcome to Mathematica.SE. Are you sure you are posting on the right site? There is nothing in your question making it clear that it is concerned with Mathematica software. – m_goldberg Jan 16 at 3:33

You are right!!

    Reverse /@ Table[IntegerDigits[Prime[i]], {i, 549, 2, -1}] //
Flatten // FromDigits // PrimeQ


True

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• AAHHHH..., I LOVE YOU MAN !!!!! – Toni S Jan 16 at 2:46
• I WILL REMEMBER YOUR NAME !!! : D – Toni S Jan 16 at 2:47
• Glad to help..! – OkkesDulgerci Jan 16 at 2:52
junk = Table[
FromDigits@Reverse@IntegerDigits[Prime[i]], {i, 2, 549}];
final = FromDigits[Flatten[IntegerDigits /@ junk]];
PrimeQ[final]


(*

False

*)

This takes $$0.002238$$ seconds on a Mac laptop.

• Note that it is the first 548 odd primes, 3,5,7,11,13,.... and not the first 548 primes. – Toni S Jan 16 at 2:33
• @ToniS: That's why the iteration starts at $i = 2$ (and goes to $549$): Because Prime[2] = 3. And Prime[548] = 3947 and Prime[549] = 3967. – David G. Stork Jan 16 at 2:35
• Damn it !! I hate this ! – Toni S Jan 16 at 2:38
• Are you sure the first digit of this prime is 769374933493... ? – Toni S Jan 16 at 2:40
• Nope: $35711317191329213731434\ldots 193919332939293139334937493$. Over and out. Good luck. – David G. Stork Jan 16 at 2:42