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SB Project Announces 4th-Largest Known Prime

Posted by timothy on from the keep-counting dept.

alien88 writes "The Seventeen or Bust project announced today that they have discovered the fourth largest prime on record. The prime is 1,521,561 digits long and is their sixth discovery since the start of the project. They now have 11 multipliers left to prove that k = 78,557 is the smallest Sierpinski number. Randy Sundquist of Team ExtremeDC's computer discovered the number on December 6th."

5 of 39 comments (clear)

  1. you just knew it by kurosawdust · · Score: 4, Funny

    In a related story, the BCS rankings for prime numbers were also released, with "2" garnering the top spot. Consequently, a lot of journalists got pissed off.

  2. Re:How do they know it's the 4th largest prime? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    because they counted them all, duh.

  3. www.seventeenorbust.com by Chuq · · Score: 4, Funny

    Does anyone else think www.seventeenorbust.com sounds like a porn site?

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    1. Re:www.seventeenorbust.com by moncyb · · Score: 4, Funny

      It is! It is! If you store their secret prime number in your user account, you can view pictures of barely illegal naked teens! ;-9 The bad news is it takes 7 days to verify. ;-(

  4. does anybody know... by Dreadlord · · Score: 2, Funny

    ... how many prime numbers left and we discover the secrets of life?

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