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		tantalor on April 21, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Largest Known Prime by Year: A Brief History We haven't seen a prime larger than M43112609 since 2008. What gives? This page claims to have been last updated 21 April 2012, http://primes.utm.edu/largest.html

Jimmie on April 21, 2012 [–]

As tectonic links, Wolfram Alpha gives the same result.

I'm not sure why we haven't found any more lately though, but the information seems to be correct.

The wikipedia page is interesting. We have discovered new large primes since 2008, they just haven't been bigger.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Largest_known_prime_number

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