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[Calvin Powers <calvin AT cspowers.com>]

Check out this page of Mersenne Primes:
 http://www.isthe.com/chongo/tech/math/prime/mersenne.html

The largest proven Mersene Prime is over 4 million digits long. And if you 
write the number out in english, as if you were  writing that amount out on 
a check, it would pretty damn humungous and still be meaningful.



At 09:04 AM 11/12/2002 -0500, you wrote:
> Now that's a weird question, and a very difficult google search...
>
> On Tuesday 12 November 2002 8:19 am, Michael D. Thomas wrote:
> >
> > I wonder what the longest character string out
> > there is? No theoretical strings allowed, of
> > course. Maybe the most precise computation
> > of PI thus far developed? Maybe one of our
> > world's really big databases, depending
> > on how you constrain the problem? Maybe
> > something with the genome projects?
> >
> >
>
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