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  Record-setting prime number found
Time: 05:29 EST/10:29 GMT | News Source: MSNBC | Posted By: Jonathan Tigner

More than 200,000 computers spent years looking for the largest known prime number. It turned up on Michigan State University graduate student Michael Shafer’s off-the-shelf PC. “It was just a matter of time,” Shafer said.

THE NUMBER is 6,320,430 digits long and would need 1,400 to 1,500 pages to write out. It is more than 2 million digits larger than the previous largest known prime number.

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