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Digital Eclipse’s first real attempt to do so with the interactive documentary Tetris Forever presents players with that very question.” [// Gizmodo »]( [/quantum] [Man spent $2 million to find new largest prime number | Popular Science]( [Man spent $2 million to find new largest prime number]( “It’s been nearly six years since math devotees discovered the last largest known prime number, but the bar has officially been raised by over 16 million digits. On October 21, the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS), a global community project dedicated to finding these incomprehensibly huge numbers, confirmed the 52nd Mersenne prime number is (drumroll, please) 2136279841-1. To translate, that’s equivalent to multiplying the number 2 together 136,279,841 times, then subtracting 1. The latest mathematical figure stretches to include 41,024,320 digits — a number so gargantuan that the .txt file housing it takes up 41.8Mb. 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