The Largest Known Prime Number has 24 Million Digits - Apparently.
In 2018, the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) project discovered a new largest prime number, known as M82,857,071. This colossal number has over 24 million digits and is a Mersenne prime, a type of prime number that can be written in the form M_p = 2^p - 1, where p is also a prime number. The discovery was announced by the GIMPS team, led by Scott Kurowski, and verified by multiple experts, making it the largest known prime number in the world.