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Largest Known Prime Number has been updated

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Largest Known Prime Number has been updated

The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) has announced recently that it has discovered a new prime number, which is also the largest known prime number right now. The number is , which has 23,249,425 digits, and was discovered in December 2017. This number is nearly one million digits

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

Mathematical Quest 4: More about Primes

Mathematical Quest 4: More about Primes

The following was published in Young NE, Vol. 1, Issue 5 (September 2013). We thank the editor of Young NE for permission to post this here. In the last issue of this column I discussed about prime numbers and why they were so useful for us. In this issue I