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Two Very Large primes

Posted on September 17, 2008 by Brent

As promised, I can now reveal the identity of the two newly discovered Mersenne primes. The smaller of the two, discovered on September 6 by Hans-Michael Elvenich in Langenfeld, Germany, is an 11,185,272-digit number which you can download here. The … Continue reading →

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