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New Possible Record Prime Number Found
An anonymous reader writes "The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS), a distributed computing project, has probably found a new record prime number. Two verification runs have started; no errors were found in the initial calculation. The number of primes found lately, four in just over two years, is higher than previously expected. This prime is just under 10 million digits, which means that one of the participants in the project makes a good chance to obtain his or her part of the EFF prize of $100,000 for the first prime of over 10 million digits in the coming months. In 2000, one of the Gimps participants collected the $50,000 reward offered."
Their computers can calculate a prime number with 10,000,000 digits, but they can't even serve a webpage? Jeez... where are your priorities?
Is that all? It'll be real news when it's 42 million.
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Why do people calculate digits of pi? Why do they scale mt. Everest? Because they have small penises.
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The number of primes found lately, four in just over two years, is higher than previously expected.
I can just imagine the newspaper report: Scientists report more numbers than previously thought.
It was revealed that the new number ends in a 2.
Nerd!
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how much do I get for finding the extraterrestial in SETI@Home?
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President Hirohito: You are American who calculate PI? ...especially small.
Red: Yes.
President Hirohito: [begins to gesture] Ogh! You must have very big pee-anis!
Red: Excuse me? I was just asking you what you're up to with this real world use of computers!
President Hirohito: Nothing. We are very simple people. With very small penis. Mr. Ose penis is
Mr. Ose: [fakes a sob] Uh, smuh, so small.
President Hirohito: We cannot achieve much with so small penis. But you! Americans who calculate PI. Wow! Penis so big! SOOO big penis!
Red: [flattered] Well uh, he-I guess it is a pretty good size.
Mr. Ose: Minata, kite kite! ["Everone, come come!" A group of Japanese women move in, chattering] This-a man has veh-ry big penis! [the women applaud, Red grins big]
Woman 1: Take takeru o da ne? ["It's rather large, isn't it?"]
Woman 2: Hai. ["Yes."]
Mr. Ose: Uh, hoh, what an-whoa immense penis-uh!
Red: Well, it certainly was nice meeting you folk, I just wanted to bring that little waste of resources to your attention. Bye-bye now.
President Hirohito: Good-bye. Thank you for stopping by, with your gargantuan penis.
I'm still waiting for someone to publish the largest known odd number. I plan to memorize it to impress women.
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Smallest Positive Mersenne Prime-Number ever: 3
Hey, also small is beatuiful.
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Finally we got a Mersene number just under 10 million digits! I mean seriosly, with this number in possession just imagine the possibilities. Like... uhmmmm...
uhmmm....
oh never mind.
Last week while factorizing random 5 digit numbers with a calculator (very bored at work) I decided that if a number has two prime factors it can't have any other factors. Is this true, and is the mathematics behind it obvious or complicated?
I’m old enough to remember 16K of memory being described as “whopping”
But the more we know about those people who calculate primes in their spare time,
the safer America will become.
it was lying around here somewhere on a notepad. Damnit!
To big for my /. .sig, darn it!
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just do what I do, use 1-2-3-4-5
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Unlikely, you don't often get two consecutive numbers that are prime.
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Yah...when primes are outlawed, only outlaws will calculate primes.
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