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    There’s a New Largest-Known Prime Number, and It’s 17 Million Digits Long

    By Glen Tickle 2013-02-05T16:20:21-05:00.

    Quick! What's the largest prime number you can think of? Is it millions of digits long? If it isn't then you're nowhere near the new largest-known prime number. Euclid proved centuries ago that there is an infinite number of primes, but no one's ever found a formula to find them, so the process of seeking them out in numbers so large is a tedious one. So tedious that it's taken four years to beat the previous largest-known prime.

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