Nerd Alert

The New York Times reported today that the world's largest prime number has been discovered. The number, written in exponential shorthand, is (drumroll, please) 225,964,951-1! It has 7,816,230 digits! It is also one of the very rare group called Mersenne primes, which can be written as 2n-1 where n is also prime. Gosh, isn't it all so exciting!

You can get back to your day now, secure in the knowledge that if you're ever asked what the number 225,964,951-1 is divisible by, you can answer, "Only by 1 and itself. That shit is prime, bi-yatch!"