Stanislaw M. Ulam.
Mersenne prime is a kind of number - a prime. Being a number, it was not capable of discovering anything
Euclid
we probably haven't discovered the "largest" prime number... but the NEXT largest prime number after 79 is 83
Prime numbers are discovered, as they exist as part of number theory. As of April 2011, the largest known prime number is 243,112,609 − 1. This number was discovered in 2008 by Edson Smith, a systems administrator at UCLA.
On Jan. 25, 2013, the largest known prime number, 2^57,885,161-1, was discovered on Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) volunteer Curtis Cooper's computer.
it is 17 million digits number, 257.885.161-1
On Jan. 25, 2013, the largest known prime number, 257,885,161-1, was discovered on Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) volunteer Curtis Cooper's computer. The new prime number, 2 multiplied by itself 57,885,161 times, less one, has 17,425,170 digits.
The new prime number, 2 multiplied by itself 57,885,161times, less one, has 17,425,170 digits.
It has been proven that there is no largest prime number. You can find a list of the largest KNOWN prime numbers here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Largest_known_prime_number
On Jan. 25, 2013, the largest known prime number, 257,885,161-1, was discovered on Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) volunteer Curtis Cooper's computer. The new prime number, 2 multiplied by itself 57,885,161 times, less one, has 17,425,170 digits.
The largest prime number yet discovered has 17,425,170 digits. That does not have a specific name. Perhaps you could come up with one.
No specific method has been discovered so far,not even by the greatest mathematicians,to create a prime number or to find out all the prime numbers......but there's a way to find whether a number is prime or not,i.e,by dividing that number with the first prime nos. such as 2,3,5,7,11 and so on and seeing whether it is exactly divisible or not.If it is not,then it can be classified as a prime no.