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The largest known prime in word form

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The source for the program used to generate the words is on the site. It's a pretty scary Perl program.

http://www.isthe.com/chongo/tech/math/number/number

> For all of the digits (25.31 Megabytes) see: http://prime.isthe.com/no.index/chongo/merdigit/long-m431126...

Damn.

> Or if you must, all of the digits in text form (328.06 Megabytes): http://prime.isthe.com/no.index/chongo/merdigit/long-m431126...

quattuormilliamilliatrecenquinviginmilliaoctingennovemoctogintillion

Oh, if only those were legal for Scrabble. (Not even possible, actually.)

I don't think that would even fit on the board.

I meant "not even possible" to encompass that.

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