Saturday, March 18, 2017

A far cry from that prime........maybe the number of digits is in those fractions into whole numbers...............or the last prime.......i am not sure....


ALEIGH, North Carolina -- On January 7th at 22:30 UTC, the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) celebrated its 20th anniversary with the math discovery of the new largest known prime number, 274,207,281-1, having 22,338,618 digits, on a university computer volunteered by Curtis Cooper for the project.

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