A 41-million-digit prime number is the biggest ever found—but mathematicians' search for perfection will continue
Specifically, 136,279,841 ones in a row. If we stacked up that many sheets of paper, the resulting tower would stretch into ...
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An Amateur Just Found The Largest Prime Number Ever
2. 3. 5. 7. 11. 13. 17. And so on. This is far from a comprehensive list of prime numbers—if we were to compile and write out an exhaustive list of all known prime numbers, this would be a truly ...
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World's largest known prime number discovered – and it's a doozy
The world's largest known prime number has been discovered, but we can't show it because it's so large it would take up 21 standard-sized novels to turn into text. Called M136279841, its shorthand ...
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Amateur mathematician finds the new largest prime number
Luke Durant, a researcher and amateur mathematician, has identified the largest new prime number known to humankind. The newly discovered prime number is 2 to the power of 136,279,841, then minus one.
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Record-Breaking Prime Number, 41 Million Digits Long, Blows Mathematicians’ Minds
Thousands of computers across the world are currently scouring the number line in a scavenger hunt for rare mathematical gems. Prime number enthusiasts, looking for larger and larger numbers that ...