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Default Re: Largest Prime number ever FOUND! - 12-12-2003, 12:30 PM
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Originally Posted by NyckMSS
who the hell cares!

its 2 to the 20,996,011th power minus 1

The number is 6,320,430 digits long and would need 1,400 to 1,500 pages to write out

http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/science/12 ... index.html
I thought it would take 15000 pages to fill.
  
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