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Single Curio View: (Seek other curios for this number) When the 1791-digit prime number 5*2^5947+1 was discovered in 1979 by Atkin and Rickert, it was the largest non-Mersenne (and eighth-largest overall) prime number known according to a list of large prime numbers prepared by Samuel Yates in December of that year. [Dobb]
Submitted: 2002-04-30 05:26:43; Last Modified: 2009-01-20 21:48:13.
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