The following image is from the page Known Mersenne Primes . Notice that if you go to that page you have the option to click on the word name of large primes. Do you know your place value beyond ones, tens, hundreds, millions, billions, trillions, quadrillions, quintillions?

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Were the largest currently known prime (the one referred to in the bottom row of the image above) to be printed out it would BEGIN with:
316,470,269,330,255,923,143,453,723,949,337,516,054,106,188,475,264,644,140,304,
176,732,811,247,493,069,368,692,043,185,121,611,837,856,726,816,539,985,465,097,356,
123,432,645,179,673,853,590,577,238,179,357,900,876,426,103,943,782,376,494,591,742,
934,588,497,117,587,146,916,972,984,761,159,060,873,250,939,462,085,575,740,754,577,
098,620,558,011,779,529,884,042,198,287,643,319,330,465,064,455,234,988,142,139,565,
785,447,474,023,546,353,758,537,324,801,838,120,387,600,868,416,525,400,790,381,285,
888,256,687,085,855,456,231,577,527,939,305,920,811,766,585,308,670,132 . . .
. . . and would end with . . .
984,625,380,787,247,802,532,758,511,333,502,460,778,884,339,034,019,700,927,663,958,
167,698,908,010,736,101,410,136,996,852,925,703,272,553,544,622,464,685,928,707,526,
568,105,993,689,915,218,073,801,443,404,945,008,266,425,932,413,139,826,915,084,069,
991,159,279,791,908,398,130,223,304,824,083,119,093,195,998,014,562,456,347,941,202,
195,900,928,079,670,729,447,921,616,491,887,478,265,780,022,181,166,697,152,511
. . . with THOUSANDS

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