Carleton student helps pin down largest known prime number

Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - 12:42 in Astronomy & Space

A Carleton University doctoral student has helped an international team of mathematicians discover the largest known prime number, a number so long it would fill 3,200 pages if written down.

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