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The 6,320,430 digits of the new Mersenne prime 2^20996011 - 1 (12597689545033010502049...63294714065762855682047) can easily be generated by Mathematica. We are happy to provide a Mathematica notebook for calculating this number and for computing some of its properties. If you do not own Mathematica, you can download a free copy of MathReader.

The following table summarizes the distribution of decimal digits in the new Mersenne prime.

Additional information about the new prime can be found in the MathWorld headline news story from December 2.