Samuel Yates
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American computational number theorist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Samuel Yates was a computer engineer and mathematician who first described unique primes in the 1980s. In 1984 he began the list of "Largest Known Primes" and coined the name titanic prime for any prime with 1,000 or more decimal digits. He also called those who proved their primality "titans". He is the author of Repunits and Repetends.
