Huge new prime number discovered Sun, 28 Sep 2008 00:52:04 GMT US mathematicians are in line for a $100,000 prize (Ā£54,000) for finding a new prime number which has 13 million digits.
Largest Prime Number discovered Mon, 07 Jun 2004 10:55:39 GMT A US scientist uses his computer to find the largest prime number identified so far. Primes are important to encryption and could lead to uncrackable codes.