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### What is 2^77232917 -1?

i.e. what is it?
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### Re: What is 2^77232917 -1?

It is the number that does not end in a zero for all bases up to 2^77232917-1

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### Re: What is 2^77232917 -1?

It is the number that does not end in a zero for all bases up to 2^77232917-1
This is $M50$ (Mersenne prime, not the highway). I can compute it but it is 120 km long, I need to find a way to store it. In the meantime, here is $M33$..Takes a few seconds to compute.
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### Re: What is 2^77232917 -1?

It is the number that does not end in a zero for all bases up to 2^77232917-1
This is $M50$ (Mersenne prime, not the highway). I can compute it but it is 120 km long, I need to find a way to store it. In the meantime, here is $M33$..Takes a few seconds to compute.
$M50$ is easy to store & display! As a 24-bit RGB TIFF image, it would be a square or rectangle of white (RGB[255,255,255]) with a bit more than 3.2 megapixels and cover less than half of a 4k-format monitor. It's almost small enough to fit on my iPhone's screen and definitely fits on my iPad's screen.

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### Re: What is 2^77232917 -1?

It is the number that does not end in a zero for all bases up to 2^77232917-1
This is $M50$ (Mersenne prime, not the highway). I can compute it but it is 120 km long, I need to find a way to store it. In the meantime, here is $M33$..Takes a few seconds to compute.
$M50$ is easy to store & display!  As a 24-bit RGB TIFF image, it would be a square or rectangle of white (RGB[255,255,255]) with a bit more than 3.2 megapixels and cover less than half of a 4k-format monitor.  It's almost small enough to fit on my iPhone's screen and definitely fits on my iPad's screen.
TIFF != integer. TIFF can't do algebra.
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### Re: What is 2^77232917 -1?

This is $M50$ (Mersenne prime, not the highway). I can compute it but it is 120 km long, I need to find a way to store it. In the meantime, here is $M33$..Takes a few seconds to compute.
$M50$ is easy to store & display!  As a 24-bit RGB TIFF image, it would be a square or rectangle of white (RGB[255,255,255]) with a bit more than 3.2 megapixels and cover less than half of a 4k-format monitor.  It's almost small enough to fit on my iPhone's screen and definitely fits on my iPad's screen.
TIFF != integer. TIFF can't do algebra.
ASCII string != integer. And unicode is even worse!

Strings on consoles are a horribly inefficient display format -- probably on the order of at least 5 kbits of display memory to show only 3 bits of data.

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### Re: What is 2^77232917 -1?

It's just for testing. I'll optimise it later
Here is $M40$
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### Re: What is 2^77232917 -1?

M50 is easy.

Just write "1" 77,232,917 times.

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### Re: What is 2^77232917 -1?

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### Re: What is 2^77232917 -1?

Esatto.
Non possiamo fisicamente riportarlo in questo articolo, perché è composto da oltre 23milioni di cifre, ma è stato scoperto il più alto numero primo di cui attualmente siamo a conoscenza. Dal momento che questo problema nel trascriverlo è comune a tutti coloro che non possiedono strumenti specialistici, esso è noto più semplicemente come M77232917.
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### Re: What is 2^77232917 -1?

$2^{77232917}-1\neq 10223\times 2^{31172165}+1$

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### Re: What is 2^77232917 -1?

Esatto.
Non possiamo fisicamente riportarlo in questo articolo, perché è composto da oltre 23milioni di cifre, ma è stato scoperto il più alto numero primo di cui attualmente siamo a conoscenza. Dal momento che questo problema nel trascriverlo è comune a tutti coloro che non possiedono strumenti specialistici, esso è noto più semplicemente come M77232917.
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