Showing posts with label Curtis Cooper. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Curtis Cooper. Show all posts

Sunday, February 10, 2013

And the largest prime number is...

...Way, way, WAY too big to post here. It's a whopping 17,425,170 digits long, which I honestly can't even begin to picture in my mind. I mean, 100,000,000,000,000 (trillion) is only 15 digits long and that's a large number in its own right. The actual prime number is 257,885,161minus 1 aka absolutely absurd. To find the number, Curtis Cooper ran 1,000 computers at 150 trillion calculations per second for 39 straight days.

Let's start the calculation:

2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2.....