Largest known prime number discovered in Missouri
The prime was discovered by a US mathematician using a computer programme
Caroline Mortimer Wednesday 20 January 2016
. REX Features
The largest known prime number has been found by a computer programme at a US university.
Prime numbers can only be divided by themselves and one, and are vital for computer encryption.
The new number - written as 2^74,207,281-1 - is more than 22 million digits long and was published by Dr Curtis Cooper at the University of Central Missouri.
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