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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.
Nerd!
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how much do I get for finding the extraterrestial in SETI@Home?
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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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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.
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just do what I do, use 1-2-3-4-5
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Yah...when primes are outlawed, only outlaws will calculate primes.
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