new prime number
Math is in the news today! A new prime number has been discovered. It is 13 million digits long, so I won't display it here. It is a Mersenne prime number which means it can be calculated from the equation: where n is a prime number. A computing project on the Internet called the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search has discovered a new Mersenne prime number. At nearly 13 million digits long, it is only the 47th Mersenne prime since ancient Greek mathematicians The new prime, 2^42643801 – 1, is actually smaller than the one discovered previously. It was “found by Odd Magnar Strindmo from Melhus, Norway. This prime is the second largest known prime number, a 'mere' 141125 digits smaller than