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This entry was posted in Uncategorized on January 6, 2006 by Ian Pattinson

Researchers in Missouri utilised 700 computers over nine years to find the world’s largest prime number. M30402457 is made up of 9.1m digits. It’s also a mersenne prime number, expressed as the number 2 raised to the power of “p” minus one, where “p” is also a prime number.

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