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The 10 Most Popular Digits In The New Prime Number [RANKED]

Walter HickeyFeb 6, 2013, 04:40 IST

Steven Berger Photography / FlickrThere's a new prime number on the block, and everyone is itching to get to know it.

Even though the text file came in at a whopping 25 megabytes, we actually counted the number of instances in the newest identified Prime.

Coming in at a mighty 17,425,170 digits, it wasn't an easy task. Still, the most popular number will definitely surprise you.

[As for methodology, the way we did it is we loaded the number into 10 different browser tabs, and then Control+F'd each digit to get a count of how many times it occurred.]