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"Demonic" 666 found in massive palindromic prime number
So I made a web app to test for primes. Its factors are: 11 × 90,909,090,909,099,990,909,090,909,091. I've made the Prime ...
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Record-breaking prime number containing more than 41 million digits found by former Nvidia programmer
To test the primality of a number, the GIMPS programs run a probable prime test, and, if the test produces a successful result, the number is almost conclusively a new prime number. From there ...