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2018
January
Neat News 2018-14 (added 2018-01-14)
50th Mersenne Prime Number Found
Public Domain by Kelson
| There are infinitely many prime numbers, however, it is not easy to find very big ones and establish that they are prime. One class of prime numbers are Mersenne prime numbers, they have the form 2p-1, where p is a prime number as well. Now the 50th Mersenne prime has been found. For it p is 77,232,917; the number itself has more than 23 million positions. |