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Puzzle 591. 1304119699

Recently I got a new record for a class of primes that was being reported by Norman Luhn to the popular Prime Curios!

Replace any single digit of 1304119699 with a 7 and the result is always prime. [Rivera]

Which means that all the following eleven numbers are primes.

1304119699

7304119699 
1704119699 
1374119699 
1307119699 
1304719699 
1304179699 
1304117699 
1304119799 
130411967
1304119697


Q. Can you get a larger prime of this type (for any valid digit you decide to use in the replacements)?

 

Contribution came from J.K. Andersen

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Andersen wrote:

I assume the original prime must not contain the replacement digit.
There is no larger prime of this type below 10^13.

(A few hours after, this was confirmed independently by Emmanuel Vantieghem)

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