New Prime Number Discovered

A prime number is a number divisible only by itself and 1, like the numbers 2 3 5 7 11 and so on. A Mersenne prime is a number found by multiplying many twos together, then subtracting one. The newest prime number is M77232917, found by multiplying 77,232,917 twos, minus one. The answer would fill 9000 pages!

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