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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- matt7년 이상well thats a big number.
- 😱7년 이상Wow! 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!
omgitsolive127년 이상Wow i am totally doing this from my current events !!!!!
jfk-dxb7년 이상I am perhaps going to try to find a 100,000,000 digit prime number
pineapplepens7년 이상such a long number!- ThatGuy7년 이상This is AMAZING!
- hi7년 이상i want to beat that record
glitterlover7년 이상That's really really super crazy cool :)- glitterlover7년 이상THAT IS TO MANY NUMBERS!
awesomecat127년 이상OMG!!!!!!!