IT'S REALLY REALLY LONG...Is An Actual NY Times Headline

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Begin with the number 1 and then double it

...double it again...and again...and again...

The results will look like this

1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64...

To get up to 64 is not too difficult a task

for most humans.

...

A computer at 

the University of Central Missouri

(Machine #5 in Room 143)

repeated this doubling process

more than seventy four million times

and then–for good measure–subtracted 1

...

The result is the 15th GIMP

  (Great Internet Mersenne Prime)

And  Curtis Cooper  discovered

THE NEW LARGEST PRIME NUMBER

22,338,618

is how many digits are in this 

REALLY, REALLY LONG

number

New York Times
(1-22-16)

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