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March 29, 2005

New Mersenne Prime Number Found!

Posted by Eric at 2:06 pm. Filed under: General

World’s largest known prime number found:

The number, rendered in exponential shorthand, is 225,964,951-1. It has 7,816,230 digits, and if printed in its entirety, would fill 235 newspaper pages.

In addition, it falls in a rare category of primes known as Mersenne primes, which can be written as 2n-1 where n is also prime.


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    A new prime number has been found.

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