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Re:Primes and Primality Testing by animeshk on Saturday November 18, 2017 @10:35AM (#15729340)
I wish i could type out that number without losing my sanity.
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Re:Primes and Primality Testing by lisper on Saturday November 18, 2017 @12:58PM (#15729955)
It's not so bad, only 2030961 digits. The first few are:

67741756636479844500840...

and the last few are:

...12967674786324684253399

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Re:Primes and Primality Testing by jabretti on Saturday November 18, 2017 @02:42PM (#15730315)
That'd have roughly as many characters as a 338,000 word book... longer than The Brothers Karamazov (365,000) but shorter than Gone With The Wind (418,000).

Just over half the length of A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth, and probably just as entertaining. Heyooo!

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