With 22.3 million digits, new prime number sets record

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Mathematicians at the University of Central Missouri have discovered a record-setting prime number that’s so large it would take about 6,000 pages of paper to print, the school announced Thursday. The 22.3-million-digit discovery is the 49th known Mersenne prime number and the fourth discovered at the university. Primes are numbers […]