Prime Number fun

The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search project has discovered the largest prime number, consisting of 22,338,618 digits in length, or the more compressed and mathematical number is

2^74,207,281-1

We didn’t want to add all these numbers to this article, but you can unpack a 10.2MB zip file into a text program to view all of it. Imagine the fun you could have with this prime number in the classroom!

The task of generating this prime number took a while. The project reports, “The primality proof took 31 days of non-stop computing on a PC with an Intel I7-4790 CPU”

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