More of a brag post, I wanted to give a shoutout to my college professor for finding the new biggest prime number for the fourth time. 22 million digits long, and also a mersenne prime! Which, for those who are unfamiliar, means it's (2^n)-1.

It's a big friggin number.

Well, what is it? Type out the whole thing.

Have all the primes smaller than this been discovered?

More of a brag post, I wanted to give a shoutout to my college professor for finding the new biggest prime number for the fourth time. 22 million digits long, and also a mersenne prime! Which, for those who are unfamiliar, means it's (2^n)-1.

It's a big friggin number.

Well, what is it? Type out the whole thing.

(2^74,207,281)-1

Have all the primes smaller than this been discovered?

I believe so. I'm not entirely sure of how the system works, but I'm fairly sure it checks every number, and once it finds that it's composite it moves onto the next.

Well, what is it? Type out the whole thing.

yeah, and by hand! no lousy c&p.

trust us - we'll know (the force is strong in nagging people)

Just curious... who verifies these numbers?

Just curious... who verifies these numbers?

he does:

That's very interesting, now hand over your lunch money nerd and I might not give you a wedgie.

I had this image of your prof chatting up a hot dame at the bar.

She asks "So, can I have your number?"

He replies "Sure, it's 372639495746229202938474636281......."

I have this vision of the future when they finally discover the last three digits of Pi and they are: 314.

Prime number one:

Number one Prime:

I have this vision of the future when they finally discover the last three digits of Pi and they are: 314.

There was a story a while back that I found somewhere...some scientists over in (I think) Japan were trying to see how much of it they could compute and it actually stopped somewhere after a trillion digits. Needs to be checked for credibility, but hey. Could be significant.