I couldn't resist but to post this in my technology blog after reading this article on largest prime number. This story was originally posted by Avik Nandy on the Science News Online on Sept 20th.
The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) a project that used volunteer computers to hunt for primes has discovered this number. As mentioned in this article, Printing out all the 13 million digits in 12-point type would create a number that is 30 miles long !!!!
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