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New Mersenne Prime Discovered News
By overconvergent
Posted Tue Sep 19, 2006 at 06:40:46 AM PDT
The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search has discovered a new largest prime number; 2^{32,582,657}-1. This number has about 9.8 million decimal digits.

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A previous YMN story by Kevin Charlwood gives more details about the GIMPS project.

One can buy posters showing the largest prime number known; the website will also sell you the jeweller's loupe you will need to be able to read the print on them.

If this prime had had one million digits it would have won its discoverers $100,000 from the EFF.

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[new] intriguing (none / 0) (#1)
by vizioneer on Fri Sep 22, 2006 at 12:37:33 PM PDT

Charmed I'm sure. LOL


[new] I've read about this somewhere. (none / 0) (#2)
by greenmonkey on Tue Nov 07, 2006 at 07:29:42 AM PDT

I've read about this somewhere. In a newspaper I think. But I didn't know that if the prime had a million digits, it would net its discoverers $100,000. Cool for the discoverers. Congratulations and more power!


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