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We got nerd sniped at almost the exact same time, but approached this in very different ways. I applaud your practical approach, but based on what I calculated, you should stop now. It will never reach 99.999%
Whew. I'm only going for 99.5%, which according to your other comment is doable!... But impractical
99.5% would still be
e^200
numbers checked (7x10^86
). According to the Quora link in my other comment, we've only calculated primes in sequence up to4x10^18
as of 7 years ago. 95% is very doable though.Edited to correct first N primes vs primes up to N.
Incredible amounts of numbers. Crazy.