New largest prime number would take weeks to write down It's prime time for the newly discovered prime number, which is nearly a million digits larger than the previous record holder.

A collaborative computational effort has uncovered the longest known prime number. At over 23 million digits long, the new number has been given the name M77232917 for short.

The program searches for a type of prime number known as a Mersenne prime, a prime number that can be described by subtracting the number 1 from a given number of 2's multiplied together.

New largest prime number is over 22 million digits long 00:42 Math lovers rejoice at this mind-boggling discovery. A professor at the University of Central Missouri harnessed the power of a ...

The new prime king has 22 million digits. If it's been a while since you thought about a prime number, primes are numbers with whole number factors that are only one and itself.

Researcher Curtis Cooper from the University of Central Missouri has recently discovered the world's largest prime number. The prime number the researcher worked out has 17,425,170 digits.

This past week, John Pace of Germantown, Tenn., made a massive discovery. He found the largest prime number known to humankind. It's more than 23 million digits long.

The largest prime number yet has been discovered -- and it's 17,425,170 digits long. The new prime number crushes the last one discovered in 2008, which was a paltry 12,978,189 digits long.

At 23,249,425 digits, the number, known as M77232917, is now the largest known prime. In 2016, I wrote the following article about the previous largest known prime, which is now the second largest ...

The largest prime number ever found weighs in at 13 million digits long. There are only 46 of these rare, huge numbers -- so far -- and mathematicians are continuing the search by using the ...

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 known to humanity. At 23,249,425 digits long, it ...

We're going to need a bigger building Maths fans can't get enough of numbers that are millions of digits long and can only be divided by themselves and one. Now, through a collaborative effort ...