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A Mighty Number Falls.

After eleven months of calculation by computer clusters from three institutions, the prime factors have been found for a 307 digit long number. What does a number with 307 digits look like? Here’s one:

12948719847198741987491874127247975847647607608236582736510756102876082375608237608237562087035612948719847198741987

49187412724797584764760760823658273651075610287608237560823760823756208703561294871984719874198749187412724797584764

760760823658273651075610287608237560823760823756208703561983748103948573933

“This is the largest ‘special’ hard-to-factor number factored to date,” explains EPFL cryptology professor More >