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40th Mersenne Prime Found

Posted by michael on from the primal-urges dept.

FenwayFrank writes "A release from New Scientist announces that the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search found another one: 2^20996011 - 1 is prime. Weighing in at 6,320,430 digits (6 megabytes of prime number...), it becomes the world's largest. Slashdot readers may remember then announcement of the 39th Mersenne Prime, a mere 3.5 million digits."

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  1. Fraud by addaon · · Score: 5, Funny

    The last digit is a four!

    Wait, no, it just got slashdotted before it fully loaded...

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  2. Here's something stupid to do. by satanami69 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I found my /. ID (209636) shows up 5 times.

    I wonder who has the most occurrences.

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  3. Finally! by Rick+the+Red · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now I can generate a secure PGP key pair!

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  4. Awesome! by falsification · · Score: 4, Funny

    This is great news. Once we have the 42nd, we will know the secret of the universe.

  5. New name for this? by dacarr · · Score: 4, Funny

    If one googol is 10^100, would this number be about 6 smeagol?

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