[ExI] New prime number found

[BillK]

On 20 January 2016 at 17:52, John Clark  wrote:
> The largest known prime number has just been found, 2^74207281 -1 is prime;
> it starts off as 300376 carries on for a bit and then concludes with 436351.
> I omitted the middle bit because the entire number is 22,338,618 digits
> long.
>
> https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2016/01/20/the-newest-prime-number-is-more-than-22-million-digits-long/
>
>

Great! I'll use it as my password.
(Changing a couple of digits for security).  :)

BillK