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New 17-million-digit monster is largest known prime 
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The largest known prime number has just shot up to 2^57,885,161 - 1,breaking a four-year dry spell in the search for new, ever-larger primes.

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Very impressive, but does that sort of knowledge have any sort of practical use at all?

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Well, cryptography for one.

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Remembering the longest Prime for memory competitions.

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