new largest prime number
Dec. 1st, 2008 11:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
javasaurusMost of the largest known prime numbers are called "Mersenne Primes" -- they are primes that can be expressed as (2^p)-1, where p itself is also a prime number. A new "largest prime" was found in August this year, and if written out would have almost 13 million digits!
It is (2^43112609)-1
A really big number! And did any of you make a big deal about it? Throw a party? Memorize the digits of it? I guarantee that it would be much easier to memorize the 13 million digits of the larges prime than to memorize all the digits of pi!
Still, nothing from any of you. I'm shocked. Bamboozled. Flabbergasted! I'm even flabberboozled! You people need to get out more. Geez.
It is (2^43112609)-1
A really big number! And did any of you make a big deal about it? Throw a party? Memorize the digits of it? I guarantee that it would be much easier to memorize the 13 million digits of the larges prime than to memorize all the digits of pi!
Still, nothing from any of you. I'm shocked. Bamboozled. Flabbergasted! I'm even flabberboozled! You people need to get out more. Geez.
