Find the largest prime number with more than 23 million digits
This prime number is more than 1 million digits. This is also the 50th Mersenne element that is rarely discovered.
This prime number is more than 1 million digits. This is also the 50th most rare thing to be discovered.
According to The Guardian newspaper, the new "record" was named M77232917 valued at 2 77,232,917 - 1, giving a huge number of 23,249,425 digits.
The old record found in January 2016 is worth 2 74,207,281 - 1 smaller than this new record of nearly 1 million digits.
M77232917 can be performed on 9,000 pages, stretching 118km with a 1-digit length of 0.5cm.
Mathematicians are excited to receive a record high number of elements with more than 23 million digits - (Photo: Alamy).
This number belongs to a very rare element group, named Mersenne primes , named after the French mathematician Marin Mersenne who lived in the 17th century. The Mersenne primes are prime numbers of the form 2 n -1. For example, 31 = 2 5 -1.
Today, the largest primes found are usually Mersenne primes. Typically, the 49th Mersenne prime number is the old record, and the new record is the 50th number.
This work is done by the Mersenne Prime Search (Gimps) Internet team . This is also the group that has found the largest prime numbers twice recently.
Mr. Jonathan Pace - electronics engineer in Tennessee (USA), and a member of GIMPS - is the person who gave the computer a special software for 6 consecutive days to basically find a new element.
Mr. Peace, 51, has been in the hunt for prime numbers for 14 years, but this is the first time he has succeeded.
After that, 4 computers conducted the test in the range of 34 to 82 hours and reported the correct result.
Peace engineers have been awarded $ 3,000 for this achievement.
Unexpectedly, the common sense of mathematicians when receiving this information Chris Caldwell, a professor of mathematics at the University of Tennessee (USA), said he did not think the two records were so close together.
And Curtis Cooper - professor of mathematics at Central Missouri University (USA), who found a record in 2016 - joked that he felt a bit sad because his record was broken too early but was very happy for success. general.
"Peace has been working hard for the past 14 years and he deserves it," Professor Cooper praised.
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