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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Mathematicians at the University of Central Missouri have identified the largest prime number yet, but good luck remembering it. The university said Wednesday that a group led by ...

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Luke Durant, a researcher and amateur mathematician, has identified the largest new prime number known to humankind. The newly discovered prime number is 2 to the power of 136,279,841, then minus one.

Say hello to the world's largest prime number. Prime numbers, which are divisible only by one and themselves—such as one, two, three, five, seven, 11 and so on—become less common as numbers get larger ...

Prime numbers—integers that are divisible only by themselves and 1—are the easiest path into understanding both rigor and mysticism in mathematics. Euclid’s proof that there is an infinite number of ...

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