Newly Discovered Largest Prime Number Could Fill Up 9,000 Pages!
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On January 4, the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS), a group of volunteers who use freely available software to search for Mersenne prime numbers, announced the discovery of a new “largest known prime number.” For those that need a refresher, a prime number is a positive integer that can only be divided by itself and 1. Since they follow no set pattern, the numbers are hard to discover, which is probably why mathematicians are continually challenging themselves to find the next big one.
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- fortniteisgrate7년 이상sup ppl
- fortniteisgrate7년 이상i hate math :{
- fortniteisgrate7년 이상sup
- tong7년 이상OMG how did they do that?!
- Simplicity7년 이상Although this is interesting, I don't believe it's much help to anyone. Cool, a really big number. But still, it's not very game changing. It's not like anyone's ever going to use it. It's more of a simple bragging right for Jonathan then anything really important.
- bossman477년 이상SO MANY NUMBERS!
- Alex7년 이상i am CRAZY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! about mmath, and numbers :D
- feelingblue7년 이상Grr. Math.
- sparkle147년 이상too cool!!!!!!
- gean7년 이상WOW my worst nightmear in math