A collaborative computational effort has uncovered the longest known prime number. At over 23 million digits long, the new number has been given the ... website on the largest prime numbers ...

The program searches ... it is one million digits longer than its predecessor, which clocked in at 22 million digits. 🎆 Yowzer - a new record for the largest prime number has been discovered!

Using a computer powered by an off-the-shelf Intel Core i5-6600 processor, a FedEx employee from Tennessee has discovered the largest prime number ... you were to write five digits to an inch ...

Luke Durant, a 36 year-old researcher and former NVIDIA employee, used a free program ... The largest known prime number now is 2136,279,841-1, having 41,024,320 decimal digits.

A computer at the University of Central Missouri has calculated the world's largest prime number, coming in at 22,338,618 digits and surpassing the previous record by nearly 5 million digits.

The world's largest known prime number ... That comes to 41,024,320 digits. If you remember your math lessons from school, a prime number is any number that can only be evenly divided by itself ...