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 2136,279,841 – 1, which beats the previous title holder (282,589,933 – 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 2136,279,841

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

I'll get my anorak.

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  • Prime number!  

    I miss read a lot.

    I thought we were going to slag off the prime minister.  Which would have been much more fun.

  • The new prime number needs to make a statement on the steps of 2. To give us our bearings for the numerical future. When times are mysterious, serious numbers speak to us all.  

  • Numbers might speak but do we all understand what they're saying? People say that numbers are a universal language, but it's not one I speak and nor do many others. I must admit to getting quite frustrated by the assumptions people make about people and numbers and maths in general, some of us are pretty much functionally illiterate with maths and yet nobody listens, nobody hears or understands and often don't even try.

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  • Numbers might speak but do we all understand what they're saying? People say that numbers are a universal language, but it's not one I speak and nor do many others. I must admit to getting quite frustrated by the assumptions people make about people and numbers and maths in general, some of us are pretty much functionally illiterate with maths and yet nobody listens, nobody hears or understands and often don't even try.

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