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Mathematicians Just Found A New Prime Number — With 17 Million Digits

An Internet search team looking for ever more prime numbers has broken their four-year dry spell and just announced that they found a new one — with 17 million digits. I can't write out those digits for you, but here's the short hand: 2 ^ 57,885,161 minus 1. For those not in the math know, a prime number is a special kind of number that can only be divided by itself and one.

 

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