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Answer by Aurel for Primality of a number of more than 50k digits

Yes, it is possible, but it is close to the boundary of what is reasonable. See for instance this software that was recently used by Andreas Enge to prove the primality of $10^{50000}+65859$. It took...

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Primality of a number of more than 50k digits

With modern tecnology is it possible to prove the primality of a number of more than 50k digits?Obviously not a prime for which specific methods for testing primality are known like Mersenne primes.

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