Category:Prime numbers

This is the category for prime numbers, which are greater than one and can be divided only by one and themselves to produce integers.

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• 6 February 2013: Record size 17.4 million-digit prime found
• 18 September 2008: Two largest known prime numbers discovered just two weeks apart, one qualifies for $100k prize
• 12 September 2006: CMSU computing team discovers another record size prime
• 31 December 2005: Distributed computing discovers largest known prime number

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