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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- FIPSRecruit8년 이하THAT IS HUGE
- Big Number Man8년 이하OOf thats a BiG nUmBER <3 ;)
- Someone8년 이하It was okay.
- Love8년 이하I love math so it was cool to find out about the prime numbers!
- H_Dovahkiin8년 이하just square, subtract one then.. BOOM!! even larger prime number.
gapples8년 이하i hate prime numbers- izzy8년 이하I'm so big on mathematics and it was really cool to find out this information! I'm actually currently in a advanced math at my school and this article must have made john pace feel as achieved as I did when I found out I was switching math classes!
- hi8년 이하ok cool
- Tk4218년 이하Wonder how long it took to find that
- Dia8년 이하They do not end it just isvery cool how they can do 2 to the power of a prime number and subtract one and it will be a lot bigger prime number