New Largest Prime Number

Greetings fellow troubled souls,

Apropos nothing at all...

The largest known prime number has been discovered by an amateur researcher and former Nvidia employee.

The new number is 2^136,279,841 – 1, which beats the previous title holder (2^82,589,933 – 1) by more than 16 million digits.

Think about that for a minute..

2³ = 8

2¹⁰ = 1024

2¹⁰⁰ = 1267650600228230000000000000000.

The last one contains 31 digits.

Now consider 2^136,279,841

The newly confirmed prime number contains 41,024,320 decimal digits! Yes, 41,024,320 decimal digits.

I'll get my anorak.