Titanic Prime

In the 1980s, Samuel Yates defined a titanic prime to be a prime number of at least 1000 decimal digits. The smallest titanic prime is . As of 1990, more than 1400 were known (Ribenboim 1990). By 1995, more than  were known, and many tens of thousands are known today. The largest prime number known as of December 2018 is the Mersenne prime , which has a whopping  decimal digits.

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