newestprimenumber

Jan 6, 2018 | Newport Beach

New Member of the Prime Family (and we are not talking Transformers)

Mathansium of Newport Beach is very excited to find out that a new prime number has been added to the group.  The new prime is over a million digits long.  It is hard for one to even comprehend the idea but it is definitely an exciting discovery in the world of mathematics.  Read the following article and learn more: https://gizmodo.com/fedex-employee-discovers-largest-known-prime-number-con-1821803170/amp