Which of the following represents the largest prime number discovered to date?

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8 Dec 2021
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The greatest prime number identified so far (as of September 2021) is 2^282,589,933 minus 1. This prime has 24,862,048 digits in decimal form. It was discovered in 2018 through the efforts of Patrick Laroche's computer, part of the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) project.

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