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The largest prime number ever discovered is 23 million digits long
• https://newatlas.com, MICHAEL IRVINGNumbers might not sound like they need discovering, but a crowd-sourced project has now identified the largest prime number known. The number was discovered by the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS), an online project of citizen scientists