The day after Durant reported that 'M136279841 is probably a prime number,' a Mersenne primality test called the ' Lucas-Römer test ' was conducted, and it was confirmed to be a prime number.

UCLA mathematicians appear to have won a $100,000 prize from the Electronic Frontier Foundation for discovering a 13-million-digit prime number that has long been sought by computer users.

A collaborative computer project has discovered the largest known prime number. The new prime number is nearly one million digits larger than the previous record prime number, in a special class ...