Largest known prime in the context of "2,147,483,647"

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👉 Largest known prime in the context of 2,147,483,647

The number 2147483647 is the eighth Mersenne prime, equal to 2 − 1. It is one of only four known double Mersenne primes.

The primality of this number was proven by Leonhard Euler, who reported the proof in a letter to Daniel Bernoulli written in 1772. Euler used trial division, improving on Pietro Cataldi's method, so that at most 372 divisions were needed. It thus improved upon the previous record-holding prime, 6,700,417 – also discovered by Euler – forty years earlier. The number 2,147,483,647 remained the largest known prime until 1867.

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