More details about the World's Biggest Prime

A little bit more from Matt Parker... PART ONE: https://youtu.be/tlpYjrbujG0 PART TWO: https://youtu.be/lEvXcTYqtKU Matt's interview with Curtis Cooper: https://youtu.be/q5ozBnrd5Zc The previous record: https://youtu.be/QSEKzFGpCQs Mersenne Numbers and Mersenne Primes: https://youtu.be/PLL0mo5rHhk More on Mersenne Primes: https://youtu.be/T0xKHwQH-4I GIMPS: http://www.mersenne.org Prime Playlist: http://bit.ly/primevids NUMBERPHILE Website: http://www.numberphile.com/ Numberphile on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/numberphile Numberphile tweets: https://twitter.com/numberphile Numberphile is supported by the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI): http://bit.ly/MSRINumberphile Videos by Brady Haran Support us on Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/numberphile Brady's videos subreddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/BradyHaran/ A run-down of Brady's channels: http://www.bradyharan.com Sign up for (occasional) emails: http://eepurl.com/YdjL9

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1. Matt can you read me a bedtime story?
   Matt: 4:22
2. dad used to read this to me every night
3. A Mersenne Prime other than 3 can only end in 1 or 7
4. if u start by 1, then followed by 1 for 1000 times, it would be something like this 1111111............1111. and my question is, does that considered as prime number?
5. So, gg to everyone born on 30.03.76
6. If Matt counted a digit every second, it would take him 258 days. So if he started a year ago, he should have finished before last Christmas.
   
   Also, I was wondering how many of the first digits of Pi are contained within the largest prime. Maybe somebody could find it. I'm too lazy.
   
   Edited: Well, after reading through the comments, it would appear that the first 6 digits of Pi are in there multiple times.
7. this means that if you take this prime number, multiply it by the number that's one higher (a power of 2), and divide the product by 2, then you will get a perfect number with millions of digits.
8. It has been a year since this video was posted. Is Matt still reading out that prime number a year later? If so, how much time does he take off each day for sleep and other needed breaks? What page is he on? Considering average life expectancy of people who dedicate their lives to sedentary efforts like reading out prime numbers, how far into Volume One can we expect him to get before he trails off? Just curious.
9. Do a video of someone saying the first page.
10. Is there a digital version of this number?
11. Now do it in binary!
12. I and my brother shares an interest in Math. However, my brother far exceeds my level of comprehension. He told me recently that none of his friends, online or offline, seem to share in his level of thinking. He feels lonely and I figured I would try and help him find a similar Math-minded friend. Anyone interested?
13. I was rewatching this video and just now realised that my birthday was among the dates shown at 1:20, which is completely unremarkable, except for the fact that I missed it the first time around. How did that happen?
14. there is no world's biggest prime. there are infinitely many primes, so there is no biggest prime. only biggest known prime. Math is about rigorousity. also i is not the square root of -1 because the square root function''s domain is the non negative numbers, by definition.
15. Could you please print it out for me in base 2?
16. What is the largest prime number comprised of a sequence of numbers found within this prime?
17. Where is 171204?
18. where can i get these books
19. In base 16, it's 1FF...FF (1 followed by 18551820 F's)
20. The next prime number is probably within 100,000,000 of this one (estimate from the PMT).