And it only has 23 million digits - 23,249,425 to be exact.
How mind boggling is that? Well, prime numbers are numbers that have no positive divisors except 1 and itself. So how can a number with more than 23M digits be divisible only by 1 and itself? I don't even want to think about it.
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The number simply called M77232917 is a Mersene prime which can be found by multiplying twos together and subtracting one from the final product. It beats the previous record discovered in January 2016 by 910,807 digits.
Jonathan Pace from Tennessee discovered the number using a specialized software (GIMPS) in his PC on December 26, 2017. To validate its primality, the number has to be tested for six days of non-stop computing.
To be thorough, the prime number was independently verified with four different programs running on various hardware configurations.
Jonathan Pace will be awarded US$3000 for his discovery.
Useful thank you mate !
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thanks!:)
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This post has received a 0.06 % upvote from @drotto thanks to: @banjo.
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oh wow! they pay for discovering this? I wonder how powerful his PC is. With a miner's rig that 6 days computation could (I think) be done in a few minutes!
good find!
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lol. wanna setup your rig? you can download GIMPS here. :D
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Wow... how do you even read 23 million some digits?
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I also love math, somehow there is a hidden code in all these numbers. Thanks for the upvote on my JOULESTEEM post, do pass by anytime.
Regards.
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knowledgable post @st3llar . but i think numbers don't like me 😂 . i've followed your account ❤️
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Bat tag ang busy bes?
Pero am glad na kahit bisi ka nakapagpost ka weeee.
23 million digits. Huwaw. Ano ang number na ito iyan ang igoal ko na magiging kayamanan in this world. Insert evil laugh.
Hahahaha
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Hahaha. Busy.org kasi yan!
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23 million?!?! Can I even fathom that? Nope not really
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