50th Mersenne prime has been found

The 50’th Mersenne prime has been found, consisting of more than 23 million digits. It can be written in the form 2^77,232,917-1. A 51-year-old volunteer has broken the record. Just how big is a 23,249,425 digit number? It’s huge!! Big enough to fill an entire shelf of books totalling 9,000 pages! If every second you … Continue reading 50th Mersenne prime has been found →