What is the 8550th prime number?
The 8550th prime number is 88079. The next prime is 88093 (a gap of 14) and the one before is 88069.
Position
Pick any whole number from 1 to 10,000.
How to work it out
- 1
List the primes in order: 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, ā¦ The 8550th one is 88079.
- 2
88079 is prime because no prime up to ā88079 ā 296.78 divides it.
- 3
The primes are spread thinner as numbers grow: by the prime number theorem the 8550th prime is close to 8550 Ć ln(8550) ā 77409, and here it is 88079.
- 4
88079 has no twin: neither 88077 nor 88081 is prime.
Primes around the 8550th
| Position | Prime | Gap from the previous |
|---|---|---|
| 8547 | 88019 | 12 |
| 8548 | 88037 | 18 |
| 8549 | 88069 | 32 |
| 8550 | 88079 | 10 |
| 8551 | 88093 | 14 |
| 8552 | 88117 | 24 |
| 8553 | 88129 | 12 |
Questions
What is the 8550th prime number?
88079.
Which prime number is 88079?
88079 is the 8550th prime number.
What is the sum of the first 8550 primes?
356,402,289.