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 beast7년 이상i love the cold
- My name is Jeff7년 이상This is a lot of numbers totally cool
- my name is jeff7년 이상This is so interesting
- my name is jeff7년 이상Cool prime numbers
- jbird7년 이상the largest number is infiity
kierbolts217년 이상Lol agreed.
bananapower7년 이상yeah true but infinity could not be counted- digitaldias7년 이상Infinity is not a number though. It's a concept.
- Science 7년 이상Cool
- This guy said:7년 이상what IS the number?
whatif7년 이상One heck of a number my great grandpa, Albert Einstein would be like, "Bah!, Dat ain't prime!" wow! what a number fascinating- kierbolts217년 이상LOL. True that.
- THEREALHUMAN7년 이상By the way, not the biggest known number.
thatredheadxd7년 이상NOPE, too much math for me, I'm out. LOL- kierbolts217년 이상Hehe same.