A new Mersenne prime being found

[YoungPhysicist]

A couple days ago, a new Mersenne prime,
$$2^{82589933}-1$$ has being found by GIMPS. It’s the number 51st Mersenne prime being found by men.

Link to GIMPS’s website:
https://www.mersenne.org/primes/?press=M82589933

Edit: According to my calculations using common logarithm, this number should be 24862048 digits long.

 

[phinds]

A couple days ago, a new Mersenne prime,
$$2^{82589933}-1$$ has being found by GIMPS. It’s the number 51st Mersenne prime being found by men.

Link to GIMPS’s website:
https://www.mersenne.org/primes/?press=M82589933

Edit: According to my calculations using common logarithm, this number should be 24862048 digits long.

Well, since that is stated in the first sentence of the article, you're probably right.

BLOWING ROCK, NC, December 21, 2018 -- The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) has discovered the largest known prime number, 282,589,933-1, having 24,862,048 digits. A computer volunteered by Patrick Laroche made the find on December 7, 2018. Patrick is one of thousands of volunteers using free GIMPS software available at www.mersenne.org/download/.

 

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It’s the number 51st Mersenne prime being found by men.

It is also the largest prime found so far.