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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- FIPSRecruit7년 이상THAT IS HUGE
- Big Number Man7년 이상OOf thats a BiG nUmBER <3 ;)
- Someone7년 이상It was okay.
- Love7년 이상I love math so it was cool to find out about the prime numbers!
- H_Dovahkiin7년 이상just square, subtract one then.. BOOM!! even larger prime number.
gapples7년 이상i hate prime numbers- izzy7년 이상I'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!
- hi7년 이상ok cool
- Tk4217년 이상Wonder how long it took to find that
- Dia7년 이상They 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