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New Mersenne Prime Number Found

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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.

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