{"id":879,"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":"2016-11-30T12:01:58","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\/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 href=\"http:\/\/ec.tynt.com\/b\/rw?id=bBOTTqvd0r3Pooab7jrHcU&amp;u=MailOnline\" target=\"_blank\">@MailOnline on Twitter<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/ec.tynt.com\/b\/rf?id=bBOTTqvd0r3Pooab7jrHcU&amp;u=DailyMail\" target=\"_blank\">DailyMail on Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New prime number, 10223 \u00d7 2^31172165 + 1, is 9.3 million digits long Mathematicians say it&#8217;s the seventh largest prime number known to date Number takes one candidate for lowest Sierpinski number out of running Mathematicians have discovered a new prime number that is more that nine million digits long. And, they say it could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-879","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"entry","7":"override"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=879"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":880,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879\/revisions\/880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}