Making sense of the 48th largest Mersenne Prime

Just to give you some handle on how big this number is. If you were to write all the digits of this number at the rate of 1 digit per second it will take over 196 days or over 6 and half months just to write the number itself and if you choose to see that number in one glance you will need over 170 km or over 100 miles of strip of paper and now imagine a million has only 7 digits and it takes only 7 cm or roughly as much space as the size of your pinkie:)