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GIMPS (see www.mersenne.org/) has found a new record prime:
257885161-1 (17,425,170 digits).
This is the 48th known Mersenne prime.
Are you looking for the largest known primes? Lists of records?
Information on who finds the biggest primes (and how?) You are at
the right place! Here we keep the list of the 5000 largest
known primes, updated hourly (hundreds of new primes are submitted
every month). We are the world's primary source to the current
prime number records.
- The current list of primes
- One page summary (introduction and a few records)
- Downloading the list of the largest known primes
- Searching the database
- The Top 20 Primes of Selected Forms
- Other lists of primes
- Background information
- A short introduction to
primes
- The history of the list
- Samuel Yates and his early lists
- What can I do?
- How can I find a record prime?
(current top programs)
- What projects might I join?
(current top projects)
- Can I help support the prime pages?
- Talking with others...
- Tell me more!
- How do you prove large numbers are prime?
- The Prime Glossary -- definitions of prime terms
- Answers to frequently asked questions
- Prime Curios! amazing and odd facts about prime numbers
Note: these are the largest known primes--so they are very big (most have tens
of thousands of digits!) If you want smaller primes, say the first ten thousand
primes or first hundred million primes, see the
lists available from the Prime Links++ pages.
- Table 'prime': 106052 entries, last updated: 2/5/2013 at 13:50 CDT.
- Total data length 10140504 bytes (average prime entry length
95 Dynamic)
This table stores the list of primes
- Table 'person': 2839 entries, last updated: 2/5/2013 at 9:35 CDT.
- Total data length 593588 bytes (average person entry length
209 Dynamic)
This table stores the list of persons, programs and projects
- Table 'log': 86747 entries, last updated: 2/5/2013 at 9:34 CDT.
- Total data length 18558528 bytes (average log entry length
213 Dynamic)
Logs changes to the database
- Table 'code': 4407 entries, last updated: 2/5/2013 at 13:50 CDT.
- Total data length 1543884 bytes (average code entry length
348 Dynamic)
This table stores links from the codes to the provers
- Table 'archival_tag': 15214 entries, last updated: 2/5/2013 at 7:54 CDT.
- Total data length 1019252 bytes (average archival_tag entry length
66 Dynamic)
Tags to indicate type of prime, class rank and weights...
- Total length: 31855756.
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