In the 1980s, Samuel Yates defined a titanic prime to be a prime number of at least 1000 decimal digits. The smallest titanic prime is 
. As of 1990, more than 1400 were known (Ribenboim
1990). By 1995, more than 
were known, and many tens of thousands are known today. The largest prime
number known as of December 2018 is the Mersenne
prime 
,
which has a whopping 
decimal digits.
Titanic Prime
See also
Gigantic Prime, Large Number, Mersenne Prime, Prime Number, Probable Prime, Sierpiński Number of the Second KindExplore with Wolfram|Alpha
References
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