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The World's Biggest Prime
Author

Ed Pegg
Organization: Wolfram Research, Inc.
Department: Scientific Information Group
Revision date

2003-01-04
Description

The Mersenne Prime 2^20996011 - 1, discovered by Michael Shafer, is the world's largest known prime. This notebook allows a bit more exploration of 12597689545033010502049<<6320384>>63294714065762855682047
Subject

*Mathematics > Number Theory
Keywords

Mersenne
URL

http://library.wolfram.com/infocenter/Books/953/
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