Catch throw with no results

Questions
1

Can anyone tell me if the program lines are correct ? It doe not give me any output and suddenly stops

n=69473167820511765242830133883162231196373893172462572947321681009276855429531868770882474054742274999418781196191128350605290638907281085633288937673680524199820066895936872314770237447995716771439959238004273486653770489519884087184561255933086729316005893883052796589968722075656357507968378869005241089165689837538775946470654446499501966076614890157622775988094202464078929288907735084091176712819439586018201262584675330599303231799651328074634544385044419476755076985251636084219268328080088251662043698866454523084731639802544765817015037852583580045461950139773968906062830312323507628556726568436388771648582054725350555439952871014106950029398605002226628662285437033779318551536747294374952255496472680780665826457366896250220249866954099419856397786258180576705276869616498812031948075619511682529816958383878485379938346995226313984712037892411186524390370830098196489452622389323720195586168765517245297601070346396828054779915463530671108671936053175605957994436181065402719501539141
sq=Table[j,{j,10000}]
b=Select[sq,PrimeQ,(1000)]
n1=(n^2-1)+b
Catch[Do[If[PrimeQ[n1],Throw[n1]],1]]
2

Hello, it is by no means clear what you want to do.

Your do-loop doesn’t have an iterator and can’t work. Then: b should be an array which is added to n^2 - 1, that means to any element of b is added this expression, but what is n?

3

Hi Hans! n is the large prime number on the first line. I just want to add a prime number to the square of n -1 and throw when the result is a prime number. On wolfram documentation it says the last digit 1 after the Throw[1]], is the number of times i want to do the loop. Could you tell me how to make the loop right?

4

I got what I wanted by a different manner, but I still would like to learn how to loop.

n=69473167820511765242830133883162231196373893172462572947321681009276855429531868770882474054742274999418781196191128350605290638907281085633288937673680524199820066895936872314770237447995716771439959238004273486653770489519884087184561255933086729316005893883052796589968722075656357507968378869005241089165689837538775946470654446499501966076614890157622775988094202464078929288907735084091176712819439586018201262584675330599303231799651328074634544385044419476755076985251636084219268328080088251662043698866454523084731639802544765817015037852583580045461950139773968906062830312323507628556726568436388771648582054725350555439952871014106950029398605002226628662285437033779318551536747294374952255496472680780665826457366896250220249866954099419856397786258180576705276869616498812031948075619511682529816958383878485379938346995226313984712037892411186524390370830098196489452622389323720195586168765517245297601070346396828054779915463530671108671936053175605957994436181065402719501539141
sq=Table[j,{j,10000}]
b=Select[sq,PrimeQ,(1000)]
n2=(n^2-1)-(b)
n1=(n^2-1)+b

b1=Select[n1,PrimeQ,(10)]
5

Perhaps you meant this ( but it takes quite a time, at least on my machine and version (Mathematica 7))

n = 694731678205117652428301338831622311963738931724625729473216810092\
7685542953186877088247405474227499941878119619112835060529063890728108\
5633288937673680524199820066895936872314770237447995716771439959238004\
2734866537704895198840871845612559330867293160058938830527965899687220\
7565635750796837886900524108916568983753877594647065444649950196607661\
4890157622775988094202464078929288907735084091176712819439586018201262\
5846753305993032317996513280746345443850444194767550769852516360842192\
6832808008825166204369886645452308473163980254476581701503785258358004\
5461950139773968906062830312323507628556726568436388771648582054725350\
5554399528710141069500293986050022266286622854370337793185515367472943\
7495225549647268078066582645736689625022024986695409941985639778625818\
0576705276869616498812031948075619511682529816958383878485379938346995\
2263139847120378924111865243903708300981964894526223893237201955861687\
6551724529760107034639682805477991546353067110867193605317560595799443\
6181065402719501539141;

sq = Table[j, {j, 10000}];
b = Select[sq, PrimeQ, 1000];
n1 = (n^2 - 1);
Catch[
 Do[
  If[PrimeQ[n1 + b[[i]]], Throw[b[[i]]]],
  {i, 1, Length[b]}
  ]]
6

If it is correct then the number caught is a prime … it is what I want to prove that the square of a prime number -1 + a certain prime gives a prime number, so the reverse is also true and it serves as a way, probably faster to check if a number is a prime upon the use of a table of other primes, but you surely helped me a lot…Thank you so much God bless you.

But now I am running in to another problem if I pick the result of the calculation it is giving unequal length problem which does not happen in the first calculation… I want to loop this until it hits over the largest known prime, but I think it is too ambitious..

7

Here something without Do, giving several (here two) answers, but running several minutes. (Use your n given above)

sq = Table[j, {j, 10000}];
b = Select[sq, PrimeQ, 1000];
n1 = (n^2 - 1);
b1 = Transpose[{Range[Length[b]], b}];
Select[b1, PrimeQ[#[[2]] + n1] &]
8

Thanks once again Hans, you are incredible!!!

9

Hello, it is by no means clear what you want to do.