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Apr 22, 2026 · 4 min

The latest Mersenne prime spans more than 10,000 pages

In this episode, start with 2^n − 1, grasp the scale of the largest known Mersenne prime’s 41,024,320 digits, then explore the shared computing search run by GIMPS.

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