The day the Soviets officially crossed the border, I wrote to President Carter: We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam War..  Afghanistan, then, in a sense, became the United States' pawn.
There is no largest number. One simple way to consider this is to  look at the function:    f(x) = x + 1    Pick any number, and plug it into that function. No â¦ matter what  number you plug in, the function will always give you a number that  is one larger than the previous one. It doesn't matter how big x  is, there will always be an x + 1 value, which will always be  larger than x.
Math lovers rejoice at this mind-boggling discovery. A professor at the University of Central Missouri harnessed the power of a research computer to calculate what is now the world's largest ever prime number. It is over 22 million digits long -- 22,338,618, to be precise. That exceeds the previous record by nearly 5 million digits, according to a press release from the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) Project, which is devoted to finding new prime numbers. The number is so huge it's been given its own name: M74207281.