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As of 2021, the longest known Prime number is 2^82,589,933 − 1, a number with 24,862,048 digits. This prime number was discovered on December 7, 2018, by the Great internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) project. Prime numbers are numbers greater than 1 that can only be divided by 1 and themselves, making them a fundamental concept in number theory and cryptography.

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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.

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