Saturday, March 18, 2017

I bet there is a way to find the last prime............if they are not infinite........

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As of January 2017 , the largest known prime number is 274,207,281 − 1, a number with 22,338,618 digits. It was found in 2016 by the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS). Plot of the number of digits in largest known prime by year, since the electronic computer.

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Largest known prime number - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Largest_known_prime_number
As of January 2017 , the largest known prime number is 274,207,281 − 1, a number with 22,338,618digits. It was found in 2016 by the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS). Plot of the number of digits in largest known prime by year, since the electronic computer.

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