| | So yesterday the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search found the largest known prime number: 243,112,609-1. Computers all around the world were donating their spare cpu cycles, trying to find prime numbers, and they finally found this. The number is so large that if it were written out, it would take up 30 miles. I have no idea why this matters, but it's still kinda cool 
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