Talk:Weakly prime number

COI disclosure by creator
My name is Jens Kruse Andersen and I created this article after a request here. The article mentions a 1000-digit weakly prime number found by me. This was supported in advance here. I think it is the largest known weakly prime number but have no source for this so it is not claimed in the article.

The article references the paper "A remark on primality testing and decimal expansions" by the world class mathematician Terence Tao. I am included in a list of names "The author is indebted to", but I am not a coauthor of the paper. I think the paper gives the main theoretical result about weakly prime numbers and should most definitely be referenced in the article. PrimeHunter (talk) 23:54, 18 February 2011 (UTC)

In base 3, is 2 a weakly prime number?
The definition of a weakly prime number is: a number which "becomes composite when any one of its digits is changed to any other digit". According to that definition, in base 3, 2 can't be considered weakly prime - because 0 isn't prime (from 0 (number): "It is neither a prime number nor a composite number"), and 1 isn't prime (from 1 (number): One is neither a prime number nor a composite number..."). 77.125.108.57 (talk) 09:44, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

"digitally delicate prime" terminology
The term "digitally delicate prime" for these numbers appears to be more common in the literature and press. Should the page be renamed or should this term just be mentioned as an alternative? Weburbia (talk) 21:44, 31 March 2021 (UTC)

Proposed merge of Delicate prime into Weakly prime number
This article and the newly created Delicate prime discuss precisely the same concept; one should be merged to the other. (I have chosen this direction because this article is older, but would defer to others if one name is more widely used.) JBL (talk) 13:24, 16 April 2021 (UTC)


 * As I said above, the more descriptive term "digitally delicate prime" is becoming more common. This may also be to avoid confusion with the more well known term weak prime from cryptography. Weburbia (talk) 14:49, 16 April 2021 (UTC)
 * I've went ahead and merged this article into delicate prime as delicate prime seems to be the more common and less ambiguous name. – Brandon XLF  (talk) 04:22, 23 June 2021 (UTC)