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Wake up honey. New prime number just dropped.
40 digits
2¹³⁶²⁷⁹⁸⁴¹−1, discovered today, is the largest known prime. It's a Mersenne prime (2ᵖ-1), which are easier to find.
It took nearly 6 years for the GIMPS software to find it after the previous largest known prime. It was also the first Mersenne prime found using GPUs.
Not 40 digits.
Over forty-one *million* digits. (Specifically 41,024,320 digits when written in base 10.)
@Kinnison Great. Now I gotta change all my passwords again.