A 10,000 digit prime number called the "Pepe" prime
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Do the math though...they're not THAT powerful. 10^4995 factors? An entire planet of supercomputers couldn't verify that. Smaller primes sure. But I doubt even Elon knows if his number is truly prime.
There are only a few known large primes that were discovered because of special properties. Mersenne primes are an example. That's why even knowing this prime number:
https://greatawakening.win/p/17s5MxWRVO/re-elon-musks-1800digit-prime-nu/
is bad news for the MPAA.
Note: a quantum supercomputer running Shor's algorithm could determine primality of a large number like this in a realistic period of time. There are no such quantum supercomputers known to exist.
Sure. The largest prime number ever found has almost 25 million digits. 1,800 digits is PEANUTS.