1. What question did you try to answer?
What is the largest prime number?
2. What search engine or engines did you use?
I used google as my primary search engine.
3. What search terms did you use to ask your question?
What is the largest prime numbers? I did not have to do a second search because my answer was correctly answered in one search.
4. What was your evaluation of your results? My evaluation of my results have checking several sites is that the largest prime number is 232,582,657 − 1 and is 9,808,358 digits long!
5. What other search strategies could you try? I could try several different search engines as well as several different search phrases along with more advanced and precise searches. But my question was answered without much effort.
6. What other questions came into your mind to continue your exploration?
What is a Mersenne number?
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I can see that numbers fascinate you and I had to go and look up Mersenne number myself!
These are certainly valid questions, but they're still fairly simple questions. You could investigate further by asking questions like these:
how did our current numbers system develop? what is the history of numbers and the theory of numbers? How did we develop various "bases" of numbers? and so on. These are still factual, but they are more complex.
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