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42nd Mersenne Prime Confirmed

Posted by Zonk on from the wooo-party dept.

Jazzer_Techie writes "The possible Mersenne Prime discovered last week has now been confirmed. This prime has 7,816,230 digits, which makes it not only the largest Mersenne Prime, but also the largest prime of any kind ever discovered. For those who don't want to take time to read the article, the prime is 2^25,964,951 - 1."

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  1. 2^25,964,951 - 1 by Joey+Patterson · · Score: 5, Funny

    Can anyone post those digits in case the site gets /.'ed?

    1. Re:2^25,964,951 - 1 by mrspecialhead · · Score: 5, Funny

      Here's an Exclusive Binary Preview!

      11111111111111111111111111111111
      11111111111111111111111111111111
      11111111111111111111111111111111...

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    2. Re:2^25,964,951 - 1 by Eric+Smith · · Score: 5, Funny

      My web site has the full expansion in binary. It's over 25 megabytes, so please don't download it unless you really need it.

    3. Re:2^25,964,951 - 1 by TheSHAD0W · · Score: 5, Funny

      Hope your web server has gzip and/or bzip compression...

  2. Man. by DrEldarion · · Score: 5, Funny

    Those math freaks sure are a bunch of GIMPS.

  3. Its the answer! by Rs_Conqueror · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is the 42nd one? I wonder if that means anything...

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  4. Big Deal - Javascript!! by XanC · · Score: 5, Funny

    I found it by leaving my browser open for a while on this page.