2025.02.28

A Gargantuan Prime Number

Discovery of a 41,024,320-digit prime number highlights the price of mathematical gold

Ever since Euclid revealed in 300 B.C.E. that infinitely many prime numbers exist, mathematicians have been on the hunt for increasingly larger ones. | Tostphoto/Getty Images

Ever since Euclid revealed in 300 B.C.E. that infinitely many prime numbers exist, mathematicians have been on the hunt for increasingly larger ones. | Tostphoto/Getty Images

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