The largest prime number is now 16 million digits longer than the previous record found in 2018, thanks to an amateur hunter and his large collection of high-power graphics cards ...

A prime number is a number with exactly two factors. Prime numbers are only divisible by 1 and itself. Another way to think of prime numbers is that they are only ever found as answers in their ...

We must again look for a larger prime number to use. The next prime number in the list is 5: Finally we can divide by 5 again, leaving 1: When we have a 1 in the left-hand column, we have finished ...