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Re:48th Mersenne prime found on Tuesday February 05, 2013 @04:33PM (#5173362)
If you care what the number actually is, and you have gnu bc, : echo '(2^57885161)-1' | bc > prime.txt

will yield a text file of 17,937,675 bytes, containing all the digits of the number, plus some overhead for newlines and continuation.