New Possible Record Prime Number Found

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Tuesday December 20, 2005 @12:24AM from the my-number-is-bigger-than-yours dept.

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."

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Re:/.ed by Anonymous Coward · 2005-12-20 01:07 · Score: -1, Offtopic

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Who Cares....? by snyperx · 2005-12-20 01:13 · Score: -1, Offtopic

In reading some of these posts, there is some serious nerdness on this site. Who cares about prime numbers? They won't fix global warming, cure cancer, or make gas cheaper. As another poster said: Care Factor = 0
MOD PARENT BACK DOWN by Anonymous Coward · 2005-12-20 01:34 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Maybe 'Troll' isn't right... but 'Redundant' is!
A girl robot by gelfling · 2005-12-20 01:38 · Score: -1, Offtopic

this'l be the best prom evuh.
First Prime Factorization Post? by InsaneLampshade · 2005-12-20 01:42 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Where's that guy when you need him most? :(