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Who invented latest prime number?

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14y ago
Updated: 1/4/2020

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.

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