Wednesday, January 04, 2006

M30402457

Yup, that's the largest known prime number. Written out, it's 2 to the 30,402,457th power, minus 1.

Happy New Year.
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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Happy New Year, JVL. I'm expecting M3042457 posts this year. ;)

9:32 AM
kwAwk said...

Is there any real value in knowing that 2 to the 30,403,457th power, minus 1 is a prime number or is this just some college professors with too much time on their hands?

1:05 PM

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