The longest prime number ever has been discovered and it really is ridiculously huge
The whopping great number was chanced upon by a 51-year-old engineer in Tennessee.
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The largest prime number ever to be discovered is over 23 million digits long, and has just been uncovered by a volunteer in the US.
The figure is, get ready, two to the power of 77,232,917, minus one. That’s 77,232,917 twos multiplied together.
Now given the catchy nickname M77232917, it was discovered by a prime-number-hunting volunteer called Jonathan Pace in Germantown, Tennessee.
