> >It's going to be over 4 million digits long.
>
> So you have something to go by, the number in the first post of this thread is only 12,003 characters long. The one we're making will be about 350 times as big.

Hrmm... Surely it'll be 350 times as *long*, making it 10^350 as big.

And how do you calculate a perfect number, anyway? I can't believe that it would be a matter of checking every possible number for perfectness? That would be way too time-consuming.

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