Largest Prime Number Discovered – With More Than 23m Digits

Largest Prime Number Discovered – With More Than 23m Digits Published on January 04, 2018 at 10:11PM chalsall writes: Persistence pays off. Jonathan Pace, a GIMPS volunteer for over 14 years, discovered the 50th known Mersenne prime, 2^77,232,917 — 1 on December 26, 2017. The prime number is calculated by multiplying together 77,232,917 twos, and …

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