New World-Record Largest Prime Ever Found!

2016-01-19

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2^74,207,281 - 1 is prime and it is the biggest prime humans have ever found. Behold all 22,338,618 digits.*

Official announcement of our new prime friend: http://www.mersenne.org/primes/?press=M74207281

Join the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search here:

http://www.mersenne.org/

More on Curtis Cooper and the University of Central Missouri:

http://cs.ucmo.edu/~cnc8851/

Read about the Intel Skylake bug found with Prime95:

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/01/intel-skylake-bug-causes-pcs-to-freeze-during-complex-workloads/

Biggest primes known to humankind:

http://primes.utm.edu/largest.html

MATT PARKER: Stand-up Mathematician

Website: http://standupmaths.com/

Music by Howard Carter

Design by Simon Wright

*video does not contain all 22,338,618 digits.