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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- Primeo약 7년SOO COOL!
- angel약 7년infinity is only an amount not a number
slytherinfan7년 이하Exactly!
- josh약 7년wow is that even a number \
- name약 7년it is not prime because it ends in a 5.
arcticwolfie약 7년so many numbers cool- An AliEn약 7년WoW This IS ....
- Beastmode7년 이상It fills up 9000 pages that is soooooooooooooo coool
awesomenessuper7년 이상Lots of numbers if I were to do a subtraction problem with that I wouldn't be able to do it.- xander7년 이상I thought infinity was the worlds biggest number
- ics1237년 이상9000 pages of numbers is sooooooo cool