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(Mostly) Confirmed: New Mersenne Prime Found
A reader writes "Distributed computing seems once more to be succesful. The combined effort of many pc's joining Primenet in search for a new Mersenne prime may have found there fifth result. Among them many belonging to /. readers. There is an unconfirmed claim for Mersenne prime #39 of over 3,500,000 digits, for which a considerable amount of money has been awarded. SETI looks for ET's messages, but found none sofar. Mersenne primes are used to tell ET about us. A previous found Mersenne number was used to show the advance of science on our planet in a message send into outer space. " The Primenet list has confirmed that while they still need to totally test it out (which should be done by the 24th), they believe that the number found today is the 39th positive.
Actually there is a verb. The phrase have found functions as the verb in that sentence.
The fact that Hemos doesn't know the difference between there and their doesn't change the basic sentence structure.
There should be a moderation category "Dumbest Comment EVER"
I mean, how biased can /. be ?
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
The phrase "have found" functions as the verb of the previous sentence. The phrase that isn't a complete sentence is "Among them many belonging to /. readers."
Actually there is a verb. The phrase have found functions as the verb in that sentence.
You will notice that this is actually one sentence and one sentence fragment. The verb phrase "have found" is part of the first sentence.
The combined effort of many pc's joining Primenet in search for a new Mersenne prime may have found there fifth result. Among them many belonging to
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