Largest prime number

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largest prime number

Because the way the largest numbers N are proven prime is based on the factorizations of either N +1 or N-1, and for Mersennes the factorization of N +1 is as trivial as
Understanding Mathematics by Peter Alfeld, Department of Mathematics, University of Utah The Largest Known Prime Number
The unique number is more than six million digits long and was found by a distributed computing project
Its size is mind-boggling. With nearly 13 million digits, it makes the number of atoms in the known universe seem negligible, a mere 80 digits. And its form is tidy and lovely: 2 n
of electronic computers, because there exists a particularly fast primality test for numbers of this form, the Lucasâ€"Lehmer test for Mersenne numbers. The largest known prime that
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From Science News: Its size is mind-boggling. With nearly 13 million digits, it makes the number of atoms in the known universe seem negligible, a mere 80 digits.
World's Largest Known Prime Number. Euclid proved in the 3rd century BC that there are an infinite number of prime numbers. A prime number can be divided only by itself and
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