[ExI] New prime number found

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From: extropy-chat [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org] On Behalf Of John Clark
Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2016 9:53 AM
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Subject: [ExI] New prime number found

 

>…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/

 

 >… John K Clark

 

John, you could have given us the entire number expressed in binary.  But I suppose 8 thousand pages of nothing but 1s would be boring.  I would counter-propose expressing it in hex, so it would be a couple hundred pages of Fs.

 

Cool thanks for the heads up.  I heard when it was discovered but with a number that size it really is important to wait for a verification.  The discovery came on the 20th anniversary of GIMPS, the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search.

 

spike

 

 

 

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