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Largest Known Prime Number Found
- pg 18y agoA headline that's always true.
- nazgulnarsil 18y agowhat if an eccentric math genius finds one larger but doesn't publish?
- ivankirigin 18y agoTo keep it pedantic: published != known. Known by one is still known.
- ivankirigin 18y agoThere are infinite though countably many prime numbers, meaning you know there is a larger one than the exact number in hand. So in a sense, "Largest found prime is not the largest," is always true.