Largest known prime number
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Largest known prime number
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The largest known prime number is 282,589,933 − 1, a number which has 24,862,048 digits when written in base 10. It was found via a computer volunteered by Patrick Laroche of the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) in 2018. A prime number is a natural number greater than 1 with no divisors other than 1 and itself. According to Euclid's theorem there are infinitely many prime numbers, so there is no largest prime. Many of the largest known primes are Mersenne primes, numbers that are one
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2005-03-30T10:37:55Z
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2024-09-03T00:53:03Z
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