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Thursday, May 22, 2014
17,425,170
The largest known prime number is 17,425,170 digits long. It was discovered on January 25, 2013. The number is 2^57,885,161 - 1.
(This superceeds my previous blog entry of 11/28/12 that the largest known prime is 12,978,189 digits long.)
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