Monday, January 09, 2006
Just Wrong!
There is no "largest" prime number -- they are infinite in number. This is simply the largest yet computed.
The number found is; however, remarkably large
The number that the team found is 9.1 million digits long. It is a Mersenne prime known as M30402457 - that's 2 to the 30,402,457th power minus 1.Blogotional hereby challenges anyone without a life to start a blog the entire contents of which is the number written out with all 9.1 million digits. If you do it, you'll never find a life, but I will laugh really hard.
