I read almost five years ago about the excitement surrounding the “discovery” of a prime number that was over six-million digits long, but now that has been topped with the unearthing of a prime that is made up of some 13-million digits.
Prime numbers make up the “periodic table” of numbers, the building blocks that combine [...]
13-million reasons to make one a prime number again
Posted by John Lampard on Monday, 22 September, 2008 to the comment subset
What’s that number again?
Posted by John Lampard on Friday, 5 December, 2003 to the comment subset
Apparently mathematicians the world over are celebrating the discovery of a new prime number. According to my mathematics directory, a prime number is divisible by itself and the number one.
How many primes do you know?
As for the newest member of the prime fraternity, it’s too long to bother writing out. It’s the largest such number [...]
