{"id":199672,"date":"2024-11-18T03:46:56","date_gmt":"2024-11-18T09:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/the-biggest-prime-number-ever-found-is-a-new-milestone-in-science"},"modified":"2024-11-18T03:46:56","modified_gmt":"2024-11-18T09:46:56","slug":"the-biggest-prime-number-ever-found-is-a-new-milestone-in-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/the-biggest-prime-number-ever-found-is-a-new-milestone-in-science","title":{"rendered":"The Biggest Prime Number Ever Found Is a New Milestone in Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zsyGRDrDfbI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Imagine a number made up of a vast string of ones: 1111111\u2026111. Specifically, 136,279,841 ones in a row. If we stacked up that many sheets of paper, the resulting tower would stretch into the stratosphere.<\/p>\n<p>If we write this number in a computer in binary form (using only ones and zeroes), it would fill up only about 16 megabytes, no more than a short video clip.<\/p>\n<p>Converting to the more familiar way of writing numbers in decimal, this number \u2013 it starts out 8,816,943,275\u2026 and ends \u2026076,706,219,486,871,551 \u2013 would have more than 41 million digits. It would fill 20,000 pages in a book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine a number made up of a vast string of ones: 1111111\u2026111. Specifically, 136,279,841 ones in a row. If we stacked up that many sheets of paper, the resulting tower would stretch into the stratosphere. If we write this number in a computer in binary form (using only ones and zeroes), it would fill up [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}