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New Mersenne Prime Number Found

Public Domain by Kelson

There are infinite many prime numbers. The biggest until recently known prime number has 25 million digits. Now M136279841 has been found to be a prime number with 41 million digits. It is 2136,279,841-1, a so-called Mersenne prime. related: #prime_number #Mersenne_prime

News seen at: Der Spiegel - Science (in German)

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