Mersenne numbers are named after Fr Mersenne, a 16th century Italian mathematician. What are Mersenne numbers? Mersenne numbers are named after Fr Mersenne, a 16th century Italian mathematician. They ...

Mersenne prime refers to a prime number among Mersenne numbers which is "a natural number less than 1 to the power of 2". According to GIMPS, the 50th Mersenne prime "M77232917" is 23,249,494 digits, ...

Is 170,141,183,460,469,231,731,687,303,715,884,105,727 prime? Before you ask the Internet for an answer, can you consider how you might answer that question without a ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Mathematicians at the University of Central Missouri have discovered a record-setting prime number that's so large it would take about 6,000 pages of paper to print, the school ...

Meet the new largest known prime number. It starts with a 4, continues on for 23 million digits, then ends with a 1. As is true with all prime numbers, it can only be evenly divided by one and itself.

The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) has discovered the new largest known prime number, having 22,338,618 digits, on a university computer volunteered by Curtis Cooper for the project. The ...

Today's website is geared for math geeks in search of really big prime numbers--you remember them don't you? Prime numbers are numbers greater than one that only divide evenly by itself and 1; numbers ...