Submission + - 51st Known Mersenne Prime Found! (mersenne.org)

Submitted by chalsall on Friday December 21, 2018 @10:56AM

chalsall writes: The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) has discovered the largest known prime number, 2^82,589,933-1, having 24,862,048 digits. A computer volunteered by Patrick Laroche from Ocala, Florida made the find on December 7, 2018. GIMPS has been on amazing lucky streak finding triple the expected number of new Mersenne primes — a dozen in the last fifteen years.

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