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Where is the 53th Mersenne prime number?
If you want to know where the next Mersenne prime number might be: There is a conjecture that the values of the Mersenne prime exponents follow the function on a statistical average and thus can be approximated by a straight line (in a logarithmic representation). The plot shows the straight in red color. Here, is…
52nd Mersenne Prime discovered
The 52nd known Mersenne prime was discovered on October 21, 2024. It has more than 40 million digits in decimal notation and reads: Source: https://www.mersenne.org
Where is the next Mersenne prime number?
If you want to know where the next Mersenne prime number might be, then you could find it here Note: In the meantime, the 52th Mersenne has been discovered: The difference d between the exact value and the ‘predicted’ value of the exponent only: d = 2014614, which corresponds to a relative error of only …
51th Mersenne prime number has been found!
The 51st known Mersenne prime was discovered on December 7, 2018. It is: Source: https://www.mersenne.org.
50th known Mersenne prime number has been found
On December 26, 2017, the 50th known Mersenne prime was found: 2 raised to a power of 77232917-1. This number contains 23249425 digits if written in the decimal system. It is the largest currently known prime number. The discoverer is Jonathan Pace, an electrical engineer from Germantown Tennesse, USA. More info: http://www.mersenne.org