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44497 (another Prime Pages' Curiosity) |
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When Samuel Yates started maintaining a list of the largest
known prime numbers in 1979, M(44497) was the largest of
all. It has 13395 decimal digits and was discovered to be
prime by David Slowinski and Harry L. Nelson in April of
that year. [Dobb]
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