The Largest Known Primes--A Summary(An historic Prime Page resource
since 1994!) News: GIMPS found: 230402457-1, the 43rd known Mersenne! Found December 15, 2005, announced on Christmas. |
| rank | prime | digits | who | when | reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 230402457-1 | 9152052 | G9 | 2005 | Mersenne 43?? |
| 2 | 225964951-1 | 7816230 | G8 | 2005 | Mersenne 42?? |
| 3 | 224036583-1 | 7235733 | G7 | 2004 | Mersenne 41?? |
| 4 | 220996011-1 | 6320430 | G6 | 2003 | Mersenne 40?? |
| 5 | 213466917-1 | 4053946 | G5 | 2001 | Mersenne 39? |
| 6 | 27653 . 29167433+1 | 2759677 | SB8 | 2005 | |
| 7 | 28433. 2 7830457+1 | 2357207 | SB7 | 2004 | |
| 8 | 26972593-1 | 2098960 | G4 | 1999 | Mersenne 38 |
| 9 | 5359 . 25054502+1 | 1521561 | SB6 | 2003 | |
| 10 | 4847 . 23321063+1 | 999744 | SB9 | 2005 | |
Click here to see the one hundred largest
known primes.