New prime number is the biggest ever found.
Do you have any idea what those prime numbers do? Well, at
least it’s worth setting up an organization called the Great Internet Mersenne
Prime Search (GIMPS), which pursues larger prime numbers. This time, a
professor in the U.S. has discovered a new one, 257,885,161-1, a 17,425,170 digit number,
which supersedes the previous record prime number of 12,978,189 digits, which
was discovered over 4 years ago.
The professor will
receive a $3,000 GIMPS
research discovery award, which certainly not worth pursuing.
Enjoy reading and learning about this new mathematical discovery, even though you aren’t that much interested in math.
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