## Do you know that I memorize all the digits of the largest known prime number by heart?

Yes, it’s true.

The largest known prime number, found by the GIMPS project in August 2008, is this number here. (Warning: the number is very long, and the page loading might cause your computer to freeze temporarily).

In mathematical shorthand, the number can be written as

$2^{43,112,609}-1.$

It took some time to familiarize myself with the seemingly endless digits, but now I’m confident that I can recite, without error, forward and backward, all of the digits of this number…

…in binary. 😛

### 5 Responses to Do you know that I memorize all the digits of the largest known prime number by heart?

Give me body landmarks, kinking blood vessel, and disfigured anatomy anytime…. Numbers evoke sudden outburst of cognitive malfunction at mere introduction!

2. suhaimiramly says:

in case nobody gets the joke😛 the largest known prime in binary notation is just
1111111111……….1111111
(the number of 1s is 43,112,609)

3. yus rezal says:

laa…ye ke…kui kui kui.mmg aku tak terer math!

4. suhaimiramly says:

“The largest known prime number is 2^32582657 – 1. I am proud to say that I memorized all its digits-in binary.”
—-Carl Pomerance (MAA special talk, Aug. 4, 2007).

http://www.math.rutgers.edu/~zeilberg/quotes.html