A New Largest-Known Prime Number

Re:A New Largest-Known Prime Number by userbinator on Saturday December 22, 2018 @02:35AM (#18739480)

We would write the number out for you, but it would fill up thousands of pages, give or take, and look like this gigantic zip file.

It's ironic to see that 11MB file being called "gigantic" in this day and age; many web pages are now unfortunately much larger, and the page of the article itself transfers at least 1MB of data.

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Re:A New Largest-Known Prime Number by carlob on Saturday December 22, 2018 @05:01AM (#18739926)

Then it's probably in decimal form. The binary representation should compress much better :)

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Re:A New Largest-Known Prime Number by paulddraper on Saturday December 22, 2018 @12:39PM (#18741542)

Explanation: A Mersenne prime is (2^n)-1 so in binary that's n 1s.

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Re:A New Largest-Known Prime Number by dvh on Saturday December 22, 2018 @05:24AM (#18739973)

Any number N in base (N) is written as 1

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Re:A New Largest-Known Prime Number by carlob on Saturday December 22, 2018 @05:27AM (#18739987)

no it's 10

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Re:A New Largest-Known Prime Number by SomeHacker44 on Saturday December 22, 2018 @08:15PM (#18743699)

Typical programmer. Off by zero as always.

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Re:A New Largest-Known Prime Number by anoncoward111 on Saturday December 22, 2018 @03:03AM (#18739553)

Unironically this. NPR even has a subdomain for text only (text.npr.org), but only select articles are ported because reasons.

A thorough joke.

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