Man spent $2 million to find new largest prime number

SOLVED:Do a web search to find the largest currently known prime number. Then calculate the number of digits in this number. [The discovery of a new largest known prime number usually gets some newspaper coverage, including a statement of the number of digits. Thus you can probably find on the web the number of digits in the largest currently known prime number; you are asked here to do the calculation to verify that the reported number of digits is correct.]

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Speed It on Instagram: "Get ready to have your mind blown! 🤯 The largest known prime number is 2^{136,279,841} - 1, with a staggering 41,024,320 digits. Writing it down by hand would take years, if not a lifetime! 🔹 This massive Mersenne prime was discovered in 2018 using cutting-edge math and a global network of GPUs. 💡 But here's the kicker: there's no such thing as the "largest" prime - they're infinite! 🤯 This single number dwarfs the total number of atoms in the observable universe... a