The first known prime found to exceed one million digits was discovered in 1999, and is a Mersenne prime of the form 2<sup>6972593</sup>−1; it contains exactly 2,098,960 digits. Subsequently other Mersenne primes, of the form 2<sup><var>p</var></sup>−1, have been found which contain more digits.
However, in 2004 there was found a massive non-Mersenne prime which contains 2,357,207 digits: 28433×2<sup>7830457</sup>+1.