New Biggest Prime Number = 2 to the 74 Mil ... Uh, It’s Big

Thursday, January 21, 2016 - 18:13 in Mathematics & Economics

A prime number is one that can be divided by only 1 and itself. A PC at a Missouri university has found one with more than 22 million digits.

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