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And I thought that 750,000,000,000 was a big # !!!
These guys must just live in a different world than I do.
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Mersenne primes — named for their discoverer, 17th century French mathematician Marin Mersenne — are expressed as 2P-1, or two to the power of "P" minus one. P is itself a prime number. For the new prime, P is 43,112,609.
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FOXNews.com - UCLA Mathematicians Discover 13-Million-Digit Prime Number - Science News | Science & Technology | Technology News
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