{"id":1223,"date":"2016-11-30T10:57:48","date_gmt":"2016-11-30T15:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/math\/shalldorson\/?p=1223"},"modified":"2016-11-30T11:01:58","modified_gmt":"2016-11-30T16:01:58","slug":"researchers-reveal-a-new-prime-number-that-could-help-solve-a-50-year-old-maths-puzzle-and-its-9-3-million-digits-long","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/math\/shalldorson\/researchers-reveal-a-new-prime-number-that-could-help-solve-a-50-year-old-maths-puzzle-and-its-9-3-million-digits-long\/","title":{"rendered":"Researchers reveal a new prime number that could help solve a 50 year old maths puzzle- and it&#8217;s 9.3 MILLION digits long."},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li class=\"\"><strong>New prime number, 10223 \u00d7 2^31172165 + 1, is 9.3 million digits long<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"\"><strong>Mathematicians say it&#8217;s the seventh largest prime number known to date<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"\"><strong>Number takes one candidate for lowest Sierpinski number out of running<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Mathematicians have discovered a new prime number that is more that nine million digits long.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">And, they say it could help to solve the decades-old \u2018Sierpinski problem.\u2019<\/p>\n<p id=\"ext-gen120\" class=\"mol-para-with-font\">While it\u2019s not the longest ever found, the existence of the new prime, 10223 \u00d7 2^31172165 + 1, now takes one of the six possible candidates for the lowest Sierpinski<\/p>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-3984110\/Researchers-reveal-new-prime-number-help-solve-50-year-old-maths-puzzle-s-9-3-MILLION-digits-long.html#ixzz4RVZPEVH1\">http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-3984110\/Researchers-reveal-new-prime-number-help-solve-50-year-old-maths-puzzle-s-9-3-MILLION-digits-long.html#ixzz4RVZPEVH1<\/a><br \/>\nFollow us: <a 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