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GIMPS crack whip on plucky processor to find largest prime number

23 million-digit figure revealed after six days of non-stop calculations

The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) has announced the discovery of a new largest Mersenne prime number, 277,232,917 -1.…

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