The Largest Known Prime Number
October 1, 2017 Leave a comment
The largest known prime number was discovered in 2016 by a computer laboratory of the University of Central Missouri .
257,885,161 – 1
is one of the Mersenne primes that can be written in form 2n – 1, where n is an integer. They are named after 17-century French mathematician Marin Mersenne.
The number written in the decimal form contains 17 million digits.