The world's largest known prime number has been calculated in Missouri - a svelte 22 million digits long! http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-35361090 | BBC Technology News

📌New prime just dropped.The largest known prime number is 2136,279,841 − 1, a number which has 41,024,320 digits when written in base 10. It was found in October 2024 by a computer volunteered by Luke Durant to the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS). Prime numbers have long fascinated amateur and professional mathematicians. An integer greater than one is called a prime number if its only divisors are one and itself. The first prime numbers are 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, etc. For example, the nu