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Default Re: Largest Prime number ever FOUND! - 12-12-2003, 01:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Short Hand":557fc][quote=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

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I thought it would take 15000 pages to fill.[/quote:557fc]

Thats the short hand form of the number to actually write the entire number out would take that many pages


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