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A New Prime Number and a Decades Old Problem
Computing

A New Prime Number and a Decades Old Problem

Mathematicians are inching towards solving a decades old problem with the discovery of a new big prime number. A new giant prime number has been discovered on 31st October, 2016 in a crowd-sourced effort, through PrimeGrid. PrimeGrid is a platform like GIMPS (Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search), where people can
Mar 3, 2017 3 min read
The brand new prime
Curtis Cooper

The brand new prime

There is a brand new prime in town! Yes there is. This new prime is huge, I mean reaaaally huge. It is more than $22$ million digits long! This new prime is the latest addition to the class of prime numbers known as Mersenne primes, named after Marin Mersenne, a
Mar 13, 2016 3 min read
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