Titanic Sophie Germain Prime/Mistake 1

Source Work

 * The Dictionary
 * $39,051 \times 2^{6001} - 1$
 * $39,051 \times 2^{6001} - 1$

Mistake

 * $39,051 \times 2^{6001} - 1 \qquad \qquad$ [$1811$ digits]

There seem in fact to be $1812$ digits in this number.

There exist the following possibilities:


 * $(1): \quad$ The number of digits have been miscounted


 * $(2): \quad$ The number itself has been misquoted.

It has not yet been possible to determine which of these is the case.