SOLUTION: what are all the prime numbers?

Question 20317: what are all the prime numbers?
Answer by Earlsdon(6294) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Did you want a list of them?
I don't think that there's enough room in cyberspace to hold them all.
To give you some small idea though, the 20th edition of CRC's "Standard Mathematical Tables" lists the prime numbers from 1 to 99,991 (I know...the number 1 really isn't considered a prime number). This edition is thirtythree years old so you can imagine how many more have since been generated by modern high-speed computers.
Anyway, a prime number is a number that is divisible only by 1 and itself, in other words, a prime number has only two factors, whereas a composite (non-prime) number has more than two factors.
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