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
