Mathematician: Largest Prime Number Known Is 17-Million Digits Long

- Largest Prime Number Known Is 17-Million Digits Long, Mathematician Says (Huffington Post, Feb 6, 2013): 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. The number — 2 raised to the [...] continue reading latest news