nextprime
Next prime number
Syntax
Description
Examples
Find Next Prime Number
Find the next prime number greater than
100
.
nextprime(100)
ans = 101
Find the next prime numbers greater than 1000
,
10000
, and 100000
by specifying the input
as a vector.
v = [1000 10000 100000]; nextprime(v)
ans = 1009 10007 100003
Find Large Prime Number
When finding large prime numbers, return exact symbolic
integers by using symbolic input. Further, if your input has 15 or more digits,
then use quotation marks and wrap the number in sym
to
represent the number accurately. For more information, see Numeric to Symbolic Conversion.
Find a large prime number by using 10^sym(18)
.
nextprime(10^sym(18))
ans = 1000000000000000003
Find the next prime number to 823572345728582545
by using
quotation marks.
nextprime(sym('823572345728582545'))
ans = 823572345728582623
Input Arguments
Version History
Introduced in R2016b