The World's Biggest Prime -- from Wolfram Library Archive

Title

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/

Downloads

Biggest Prime.nb (5.9 KB) - Mathematica Notebook

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