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New Largest Prime Found: Over 7 Million Digits
Gilchrist continues "If you want to see the number in written in decimal, Perfectly Scientific, Dr. Crandall's company which developed the FFT algorithm used by GIMPS, makes a poster you can order containing the entire number. It is kind of pricey because accurately printing an over-sized poster in 1-point font is not easy! Makes a cool present for the serious math nut in your family.
For more information, the press release is available.
Congratulations to Josh and every GIMPS contributor for their part in this remarkable find. You can download the client for your chance at finding the next world record prime! A forum for newcomers is available to answer any questions you may have.
GIMPS is closing in on the $100,000 Electronic Frontier Foundation award for the first 10-million-digit prime. The new prime is 72% of the size needed, however an award-winning prime could be mere weeks or as much as few years away - that's the fun of math discoveries, said GIMPS founder George Woltman. The GIMPS participant who discovers the prime will receive $50,000. Charity will get $25,000. The rest will be used primarily to fund more prime discoveries. In May 2000, a previous participant won the foundation's $50,000 award for discovering the first million-digit prime."
But Pseudoprimes? Probability of primeness? Hah! You people cut corners!
/^[A-Z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,4}$/i
I'm still searching for that even prime number bigger than 2...
I'm the Devil the Windows users warned you about.
...if I add 2 to this number, I just might get another prime and find the new largest prime. :-)
Say all you will, but Optimus is still the ultimate prime.
I also reply below your current threshold.
Notice I said it's an attempt, I didn't say it would work;)
If my answers frighten you, stop asking scary questions.
Great. This should improve the distribution of elements in my hashtable implementation.
Who knows, one day you might find yourself struck in the tiger den with multiple doors all marked with Mersenne Primes, and a sign saying, "safe exit thru the door marked with the 41st Mersenne Prime". Yeah, then who is gonna bitch about not memorizing that sucker, huh?
Size does matter :)
OWNED heh
Props to GNAA!
Only on Slashdot is the first post modded Redundant.
Somebody set up us the prime.
I heard a rumor that some wiseguy in charge of printing changed one of the digits first - you may think you're paying for a prime, but they're really stiffing you and shipping a composite number!
I'm not gonna believe that until I verified it myself.
so.. anyone got a clue on how long it will take on my good old Pentium Pro 200?
In binary: 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 11111111111111111111111111111111111111...
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Sorry
I have discovered a truly marvelous demonstration of a 10 million digit prime which this margin is too narrow to contain.
Getting laid does wonders for the state-of-mind...
That's the theory anyway.
But once you enter slashdot.org in your address bar you are doomed.
i'll let everyone know when i am done!
-- ladies and gentlemen we are floating in space!
I have disovered a most elegant prime exceeding 10 million digits, alas the slashdot comment limit is too small to post it.
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- - You can't take something off the Internet! That's like trying to take pee out of a swimming pool.
Nerd humor. Meh, I say. Meh!
"To answer your question a little more seriously the number is not much use in itself but like many peices of research the route to the goal often turns out more interesting information than the goal."
Kinda kicks you in the ass when people say "ok, what good is it?"
I know what good it is. It's a way of keeping 'scientists' employed (scientific welfare) so they don't pollute the job and gene pools.
I'm considering doin research on the 'how', 'why', and 'classification' of belly button lint. I'm sure there's a government funded grant in it. We REALLY NEED TO KNOW THESE THINGS 'just in case' they are usefull in the future.
Yeah, let's keep the scientists out of the gene pool, maybe even replace them with Christian Scientists(tm). I mean, why would we want people to have even the slightest hint of intellegence, I mean, the public, dear lord. You should let the current administration know you have devised such an excellect scheme for them...
Not that I'm saying this guy is a scientist, but whatever... Oh yeah, and you're a troll, but I couldn't help myself.
7 million digits?
That primate must have big hands...
What's the frequency, Kenneth?
Which is why I'd hate to be a math student in the 22nd century:
Teacher: Ok class, your homework for tomorrow is to find a Mersenne prime longer than 1,000,000 digits. *By hand*. I don't want to see any computer printouts.
Class: *Groan*
Good thing you mentioned that the GIMPS project was behind this and told us where the client could be downloaded, since neither information was available in the write-up.
:) :) :) :)
Phew, crisis averted. Good job!
2^19232891231089 - 1 isn't prime.
3765761637264764023 divides it.
IAAM.
YAW
Your head of state is a corrupt weasel, I hope you're happy.
Damn... someone please remind me to change the combination on my luggage...
GIMPS is closing in on the $100,000 Electronic Frontier Foundation award for the first 10-million-digit prime.
When it is found that computer will be wondering: 1 $100.000 hookerbot or 100.000 $1 hookerbots?
"It's too bad that stupidity isn't painful." - Anton LaVey
Wait, I didn't tell that right.
And we will send them Jodie Foster, and they will send her back with a message saying "no no. We wanted Natalie Portman."
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It's the end of my comment as I know it and I feel fine.
But remember the original question. What are they good for.
In other words, it's not the size of your prime number, it's how you use it that counts.
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It's the end of my comment as I know it and I feel fine.
Excellent. For the other prime, I shall use 3.
I can just see it now. Women saying "you should see what my husband thinks is a 10 million digit prime. No wonder he can't figure out how to leave a tip in resteraunts.
binary digits:
>>> math.floor(math.log(2**24036583-1,2))
24036583.0
I assume you realize that any number of the form 2^n -1 is going to take n bits to represent.
I'm considering doin research on the 'how', 'why', and 'classification' of belly button lint. I'm sure there's a government funded grant in it. We REALLY NEED TO KNOW THESE THINGS 'just in case' they are usefull in the future.
Sadly, you've been beaten to it.
how large would a text file with 10 million characters be?
http://www.backstab.net
Moderators, please tell me what is going on in your little heads. I really want to know. It's not hard to moderate properly, you know... You have the opportunity to motivate your actions, but I suspect you wont take it. You'll just mod me down instead, thinking that is a good substitute for explaining your actions.
I just received a notice from my administrator that I should change my password again... this'll teach him!
The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.
So many comments, yet not one link to the Prime Number Shitting Bear?
Not even the slightly more tame Prime Number Pooping Bear?
I hate sigs.
Do all philosophers have letter 'S' in their names?
Kant you tell?