Megaprime

A megaprime is a prime number with at least one million decimal digits. A titanic prime, a term coined by Samuel Yates in the 1980s, is a prime number with at least 1,000 digits; and a gigantic prime has at least 10,000 digits. As of December 2018, 449 (probable) megaprimes are known, including 421 definite primes and 28 probable primes. The first to be found was the Mersenne prime 26972593−1 with 2,098,960 digits, discovered in 1999 by Nayan Hajratwala, a participant in the distributed computing project GIMPS, and was subject to a cooperative computing award.

Megaprime

A megaprime is a prime number with at least one million decimal digits. A titanic prime, a term coined by Samuel Yates in the 1980s, is a prime number with at least 1,000 digits; and a gigantic prime has at least 10,000 digits. As of December 2018, 449 (probable) megaprimes are known, including 421 definite primes and 28 probable primes. The first to be found was the Mersenne prime 26972593−1 with 2,098,960 digits, discovered in 1999 by Nayan Hajratwala, a participant in the distributed computing project GIMPS, and was subject to a cooperative computing award.