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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- cold beast8년 이하i love the cold
- My name is Jeff8년 이하This is a lot of numbers totally cool
- my name is jeff8년 이하This is so interesting
- my name is jeff8년 이하Cool prime numbers
- jbird8년 이하the largest number is infiity
kierbolts218년 이하Lol agreed.
bananapower8년 이하yeah true but infinity could not be counted- digitaldias8년 이하Infinity is not a number though. It's a concept.
- Science 8년 이하Cool
- This guy said:8년 이하what IS the number?
whatif8년 이하One heck of a number my great grandpa, Albert Einstein would be like, "Bah!, Dat ain't prime!" wow! what a number fascinating- kierbolts218년 이하LOL. True that.
- THEREALHUMAN8년 이하By the way, not the biggest known number.
thatredheadxd8년 이하NOPE, too much math for me, I'm out. LOL- kierbolts218년 이하Hehe same.