CNN reports that the new largest prime number was discovered on January 4, 2006. It is 9.1 million digits long. (thanks Tom for the link)
If you were to print this number out on 8.5×11″ sheets of paper, one-sided with 0.5″ margins at 11-point Helvetica, it would take 1,556 sheets of paper. That’s just over three reams of paper.
i love prime numbers. i really do. I hav enjoyed a good prime number since my college days. Prime numbers don’t need any other numbers to exsit. They are indepdent and solid.
Prime numbers are fun and unique, cuz they stand alone being nondivisible by any other number. But does that make them stubborn too?
stubborn or independent. i prefer to call them “independent”, but “stubborn” works as well.