On December 27th 2020, almost two years ago, I created a post titled Magnanimous Numbers which are defined as follows:
A magnanimous number is a number (which we assume to be of at least 2 digits) such that the sum obtained inserting a "+" among its digit in any position gives a prime.
Such numbers are quite rare. At the time of that post, I had just turned 26201 days old and this number is magnanimous. Since then my diurnal age has corresponded to only one other such number: 26285. That is, until today, when I turned 26881 days old, a number that is also magnanimous. Checking we find that:2+6881=6883 which is prime26+881=907 which is prime268+81=349 which is prime2688+1=2689 which is prime
A089392 | Magnanimous primes: primes with the property that inserting a "+" in any place between two digits yields a sum which is prime. |
Up to one million, there are only 71 such primes (see permalink). They are:
2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 23, 29, 41, 43, 47, 61, 67, 83, 89, 101, 227, 229, 281, 401, 443, 449, 467, 601, 607, 647, 661, 683, 809, 821, 863, 881, 2221, 2267, 2281, 2447, 4001, 4027, 4229, 4463, 4643, 6007, 6067, 6803, 8009, 8221, 8821, 20261, 24407, 26881, 28429, 40427, 40483, 42209, 60443, 68683, 80849, 220021, 224027, 228601, 282809, 282881, 282889, 404249, 408049, 464447, 600881, 602081, 626261, 800483, 806483, 864883
I'll see only one more (28429) during my lifetime. This site has a useful table that shows the number of magnanimous primes and their range for number of digits ranging from 2 to 9. It is reproduced in Figure 1.
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Figure 1: source |
It is most likely that there are only a finite number of magnanimous primes and it could well be that 608,844,043 is the largest.
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