# Mersenne Prime Discovery - 2^136279841-1 is Prime!

<https://www.mersenne.org/primes/?press=M136279841>

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## What Jamie wrote

It is hard to even conceptualize a number like this. I downloaded it as a file and it is a 41.8MB text file — that is just this number. And to think that there are infinite primes. 🤯

## Facts

- Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/)

## Appears in

- [WT298: Weekly Thing 298 / Tool, Solar, Circles](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/298/), Briefly

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## Elsewhere

- Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.mersenne.org/primes/?press=M136279841