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Thursday, May 25, 2006

What is the largest known prime number?

Answer:

The largest known prime number is (2 to the power of 20,996,011) -1. It was discovered by Michael Shafer (USA), a chemical engineering student at Michigan State University (USA), on November 17, 2003. This prime number contains 6,320,430 digits.

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