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Default Largest Prime number ever FOUND! - 12-11-2003, 11:43 PM

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


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