The Current Record
The record is currently held by 243,112,609 − 1 with 12,978,189 digits. Its discovery resulted from the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS), and won its discoverers $100,000 and a Cooperative Computing Award from the Electronic Frontier Foundation for discovering a prime number of over 10 million digits. Time called it the 29th top invention of 2008.
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