Le Jingle
2013-04-24 08:17:53
17,425,170 Digits,
Represented as, 2^57885161-1
This is the 48th Mersenne Prime as quoted in the article,
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9236570/Mathematician_Finding_17M_digit_prime_number_like_climbing_Everest?taxonomyId=67&pageNumber=1
Pretty outstanding if you ask me, given there's still an infinite amount of primes out there, that we're on some path to finding more and more (towards infinity) of prime numbers. :D
#MathIsFun
~Lj
(I think there's even a link in there to a nicely sized ~22.7 MB File containing all the digits to the number!)
Represented as, 2^57885161-1
This is the 48th Mersenne Prime as quoted in the article,
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9236570/Mathematician_Finding_17M_digit_prime_number_like_climbing_Everest?taxonomyId=67&pageNumber=1
Pretty outstanding if you ask me, given there's still an infinite amount of primes out there, that we're on some path to finding more and more (towards infinity) of prime numbers. :D
#MathIsFun
~Lj
(I think there's even a link in there to a nicely sized ~22.7 MB File containing all the digits to the number!)