Computer helps scientists find largest prime number ever
Q. Computer has enabled scientists to discover the biggest prime number with how many digits?- Published on 25 Jan 16a. 22 million
b. 20 million
c. 18 million
d. 10 million
ANSWER: 22 million
Computer has assisted scientists to find the biggest prime number with close to 22 million digits cutting down on the previous record by close to 5 million digits. The University of Central Missouri headed by Curtis Cooper has broken the record a total number of 4 times. Cooper and his team are part of the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search collaboration, an effort to find the largest prime number — or, more specifically, a particular class of prime numbers that are called Mersenne, where it is one less than a power of two.Prime number, written as 2^74,207,281 - 1, had been found using this method.
