Longer than “War and peace”: what is the longest Prime number

New largest Prime number has been nine long novels “War and peace”. About reports the online edition of N+1.

Computer the American engineer Jonathan pace found the 50th Mersenne Prime. About reports the online edition of N+1. This is the largest of the currently known primes, its length exceeds 23 million characters, according to the website of the distributed computing project GIMPS.

New largest Prime number found in the framework of the distributed computing project GIMPS (Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search), which anyone can join. The first ever research distributed computing project dedicated to finding primes. GIMPS was started in 1995 and was originally designed to work with 386-e processors, and in October 2017, the total computing power of the project was already 324 teraflops. In order to join the project, you need to install a program like Prime95.

Numbers are called Mersenne numbers of the form 2p-1. Among them are both simple and composite numbers. Figure p was found in 50-m simple Mersenne number is 77232917 and decimal number 277232917-1 contains 23 249 425 digits. It’s on 910 thousand characters longer than the 49th Mersenne Prime, and longer than nine novels “War and peace” without spaces.

New number found computer the American engineer Jonathan pace, who is in search of a simple number for 14 years. On confirmation that 277232917-1 is simple, at his computer with an Intel i5-6600 took six days of computation. The discovery of a new largest Prime number have already confirmed four other project participant on four different platforms with different software.

Previous Mersenne Prime was found in 2016 mathematician Curtis Cooper. It was a number 274207281-1, which consists of 22 338 618 digits.

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