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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- matt8년 이하well thats a big number.
- 😱8년 이하Wow! That’s a huuuuuuge number and at first I thought, isn’t it easy to find a prime number but a second later I realized how hard it actually is! This is amazing!
omgitsolive128년 이하Wow i am totally doing this from my current events !!!!!
jfk-dxb8년 이하I am perhaps going to try to find a 100,000,000 digit prime number
pineapplepens8년 이하such a long number!- ThatGuy8년 이하This is AMAZING!
- hi8년 이하i want to beat that record
glitterlover8년 이하That's really really super crazy cool :)- glitterlover8년 이하THAT IS TO MANY NUMBERS!
awesomecat128년 이하OMG!!!!!!!