Engineer Discovers Largest Prime Number after 14-year Search
If you wrote it down, the largest prime number discovered would fill the King James Bible seven times over, or Proust’s A la recherche du temps perdu twice. If you printed it at 12-point font, it would stretch 25 miles.
Or if you preferred you could write it down far more succinctly, and completely accurately, as 2 to the power of 77,232,917, minus 1.
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