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New Largest Known Prime Number: 2^57,885,161-1
An anonymous reader writes with news from Mersenne.org, home of the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search: "On January 25th at 23:30:26 UTC, the largest known prime number, 257,885,161-1, was discovered on GIMPS volunteer Curtis Cooper's computer. The new prime number, 2 multiplied by itself 57,885,161 times, less one, has 17,425,170 digits. With 360,000 CPUs peaking at 150 trillion calculations per second, GIMPS — now in its 17th year — is the longest continuously-running global 'grassroots supercomputing' project in Internet history."
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That would be 3:
2 multiplied by itself is 4. No matter if you do it once or 57,885,160 times. Then minus one.
Or it could be 4 if you only do it 57,885,159 times. But I think 4 is not a prime number.
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I can't speak for other people, but I often use (2^57,885,161)-1 in casual conversation.