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(Mostly) Confirmed: New Mersenne Prime Found

Posted by Hemos on from the one-more-down-another-to-go dept.

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.

18 of 331 comments (clear)

  1. Mooo! by robvasquez · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I AM A COW!

    Yes I be!

  2. frost post? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    fist post?

  3. Now I can retire my 386 by SolidCore · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Great now I can finnaly retire my 386 looking for primes.

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  4. ok! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    with all due respect, this is cool and all, but what kind of discussion is this supposed to generate!

  5. I know the number! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'd post it, but the lameness filter would block it :-)

  6. Yum by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I love prime rib. Where are these cows from?

  7. Re:Let me be the first to say by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I am fucking you.

  8. Re:Grammar Goldmine by jimbo3123 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    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.

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  9. awsome! by duran.thinkframe · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I actually UNDERSTAND what your talking about! :) shit like this, is always really cool to me. :) - so ends, another completly useless post.

  10. Re:Grammar Goldmine by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hemos didn't write it. Hence the italics. Now quit trying to be an ass.

  11. Re:guess what by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Spell checker: "prank"

  12. I know I'm going to get moded down for this, but.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You're an idiot.

  13. So what ? by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    I personally discovered the smallest prime number in the world (it's minus the largest one) and nobody ever mentionned it ...

    I mean, how biased can /. be ?

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  14. Re:Grammar Goldmine by Erasmus+Darwin · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    "The phrase have found functions as the verb in that sentence."

    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."

  15. Don't editors ever edit? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    may have found there fifth result.

    THEIR
  16. Re:Grammar Goldmine by cpeterso · · Score: 0, Offtopic


    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 /. readers.

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  17. Where ? There ! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    $where = "there";
    $what = "fifth result";
    $msg .= "may have found $where $what.";

  18. Re:Hail Comrade Kursk! by Spootnik · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Your left nut tastes like chicken. Slashdot makes me want to toss your salad.