You can find some amusing papers in this area by searching for ["primes at a glance"][1] and [" primes at a (somewhat lengthy) glance"][2]. $31=2^23^2-5$ is enough to show $31$ has no prime divisors below its square root. $A=88711$ is the product of $7,19,23,29$ and $72930$ is the product of $2,3,5,11,13,17$ so we can certainly find coprime integers$s,t$ with $31=88711s-72930t$ You can always do that. But probably not with $st$ having all prime factors below 31. [1]: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2007883%20 [2]: http://www.dms.umontreal.ca/~andrew/PDF/agoh.pdf