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M44
M44 is the short hand used to refer to the 44th Mersenne prime. Currently that designation belongs to [math]\displaystyle{ 2^{32\,582\,657}{-}1 }[/math].
M44 was discovered to be prime on 2006-09-04 by Curtis Cooper and Steven Boone, using Prime95 written by George Woltman. At time of its discovery, it was the largest known prime number. The number is 9 808 358 decimal digits long. This prime number was the tenth record prime found by the GIMPS project.