Here is one MAD number - largest known prime (1 Viewer)

[tywebb]

Download all 22338618 digits here: http://www.mersenne.org/primes/digits/M74207281.zip of the largest known prime 2^74207281-1 discovered on January 7, 2016 by Curtis Cooper: http://www.mersenne.org/primes/?press=M74207281

To save you the trouble of scrolling through all 22338618 digits, the number looks like this: 3003764180..........1086436351

EDIT: Now there is a bigger one. See post 8 for details at http://community.boredofstudies.org...d-number-largest-known-prime.html#post7283383 And this new one has 23249425 digits.

EDIT 2: An even bigger one has recently been discovered on Dec. 7, 2018 with 24862048 digits. See post #9 for details: http://community.boredofstudies.org...d-number-largest-known-prime.html#post7307263

EDIT 3: now it is 2^136279841-1 with 41,024,320 digits see post #10 for details

 

[leehuan]

This would've been really nice to post under interesting maths statements

 

[tywebb]

It is not a statement. It is a discovery.

 

[leehuan]

I know. A discovery can be summarised in a statement.

 

[InteGrand]

I know. A discovery can be summarised in a statement.

He probably wanted to devote a thread to it.

 

[Nailgun]

I just downloaded a 20MB text-file with a single number in it

 

[Paradoxica]

One word: Meh.

Sure, you can just go program and find mersenne primes, but what would be more interesting is finding an underlying connection to literally every other branch of mathematics. Now that, would be a huge deal, and probably revolutionise the way modern mathematics is held together.

 

[tywebb]

Now there is an ever bigger one discovered on Dec. 26, 2017.

It is 2^77232917-1 discovered with 23249425 digits by Jonathan Pace. You can download all the digits here: http://www.mersenne.org/primes/digits/M77232917.zip. More info here https://www.mersenne.org

 

[tywebb]

And now there is an even bigger largest known prime: 2^82589933-1 discovered with 24862048 digits by Patrick Laroche on Dec 7, 2018. You can download all the digits here: https://www.mersenne.org/primes/digits/M82589933.zip. More info here https://www.mersenne.org

 

[tywebb]

now it is 2^136279841-1, 41,024,320 digits are at https://www.mersenne.org/primes/digits/M136279841.zip more info at https://www.mersenne.org/primes/?press=M136279841 and youtube is here: