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42nd Mersenne Prime Confirmed

Posted by Zonk on from the wooo-party dept.

Jazzer_Techie writes "The possible Mersenne Prime discovered last week has now been confirmed. This prime has 7,816,230 digits, which makes it not only the largest Mersenne Prime, but also the largest prime of any kind ever discovered. For those who don't want to take time to read the article, the prime is 2^25,964,951 - 1."

2 of 296 comments (clear)

  1. ginormous by unihedron · · Score: 1, Troll

    That's a bit too large to fit on my poster! http://www.unihedron.com/projects/primes/index.php

  2. Re:Participate in the search by Aeiri · · Score: 0, Troll

    I would rather use my CPU cycles for research on protein folding, a serious problem that can cause disease, than finding prime numbers.