We Have A New Prime Number with Nearly 25 Million Digits

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It’s a staggering number that we have been able to compute. Just writing this new largest-known prime number may take years to accomplish, every single digit of it.

The newly discovered number is what’s known as a Mersenne prime, named for a French monk named Marin Mersenne who studied primes some 350 years ago.

Mersenne primes have a simple formula: 2n-1. In this case, "n" is equal to 82,589,933, which is itself a prime number. If you do the math, the new largest-known prime is a whopping 24,862,048 digits long.

We would write the number out for you, but it would fill up thousands of pages, give or take, and look like this gigantic zip file.

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Source: neatorama

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