How they found the World's Biggest Prime Number - Numberphile

Finding the 2^127-1 Lucas number... by hand. Imagine messing up just one freaking number.

Matt: ... I know 5 is a prime number. Brady: What?? Matt: Probably..... What a classic Parker Square moment.

instead of searching for the biggest prime number, I went searching for the smallest. After two years of calculating, my computer finally found it: 2

03:43 they grow up so fast ;-;

this number is fabulous in binary

2 forests where destroyed to make that book

fun fact, Prime95, which is the prime finder tool made by GIMPS, is also used as a stress test for CPUs for overclocking

If you'd figure out a pattern, would you get more money for publishing a prime every month or for publishing the pattern?

I found one! 11 is a prime number!

Wrong. The Lucas numbers go 4, 5, 6, 1, 2, 3.

this is beyond my imagination how they come up with say something like lucas series and check if a number is prime or not from that series... props to the legends like these..

4:05 He fast forwarded those numbers because he started by saying “2 billion”, not “2 quintillion. Ripparoni

My brain just threw an exception.

Any chance we'll get an explanation of why that method works?

if I'm at a restaurant and order a cut of meat, can I use this formula to see if the ribs are prime?

This cant be true! The Google Calculator says this number is Infinity!

You should mass produce those books. I would legitimately buy them.

Could somebody write this prime in base 26 and print it using English alphabet? Would it reveal interesting words? What would be the longest?

The fact that people are so nerdy they do this, and then print it out like it was a book, it makes me ridiculously happy. And btw, thank you guys for making videos! I haven't done very advanced math, but through your videos I have been able to at least kind of grasp the idea of some of these amazing things!

Excellent video. So engaging, so informing, so entertaining ! The faces Matt pulls are so funny. In fact, I would put them in the "Flippin' hilarious !" category. And him printing the out the largest prime on 745 pages of paper (double sided) is just such a Matt thing to do. And it is not a waste of paper, he will take these volumes to talks, lectures, meetings, and people will look at them and wonder ... On a quiet Sunday afternoon, he will probably put his favorite math's journal aside and flick through these volumes and smile. (Don't worry, I would as well).