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| 7,816,230-digit prime number discovered On February 18, 2005, Dr. Martin Nowak from Germany, found the new largest known prime number, 2^25,964,951 -1. The prime number has 7,816,230 digits. It took more than 50 days of calculations on Dr. Nowak's 2.4 GHz Pentium 4 computer. The new prime was independently verified in five days by two reserachers in France and Spain. Read more about it, here
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