Largest known prime number

format of 50 lines per page and 75 characters per line, it would require 10,940 single-sided pages to print this prime number, or approximately 22 reams of paper. (15 are shown here.) The record is held by with 41,024,320 digits, found by GIMPS on October 12, 2024. {{quote|881694327503833265553939100378117358971207354509066041067156376412422630694756841441725990347723283108837509739959776874... [41,024,080 digits skipped] ...852806517931459412567957568284228288124096109707961148305849349766085764170715060409404509622104665555076706219486871551 ==Prizes==

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) offers several prizes for record primes. In 2008, a ten-million-digit prime won a $100,000 prize and a Cooperative Computing Award from the EFF. Time called this prime the 29th top invention of 2008. Both these primes were discovered through the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS), which coordinates long-range search efforts among tens of thousands of computers and thousands of volunteers. The $50,000 prize went to the discoverer and the $100,000 prize went to GIMPS. GIMPS will split the $150,000 prize for the first prime of over 100 million digits with the winning participant. A $250,000 prize awaits the first prime with one billion digits. ==History==

Math Department after proving that M11213 is prime The following table lists the progression of the largest known prime number in ascending order. This is the first time a Mersenne prime has been discovered using GPUs instead of central processing units (CPUs). ==Twenty largest==

A list of the 5,000 largest known primes is maintained by the PrimePages, of which the largest 20 are listed below. ==See also==