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New Record Prime Found
An anonymous reader writes, "The GIMPS project has found a new record prime. 2 ^ 32,582,657 - 1, clocking in at over 9 million digits, is a Mersenne prime, as were the last few record primes. Here is the 9-megabyte decimal expansion."
...Please move along."
/. said when I first clicked the story, anyway. I immediately assumed it had been commandeered for use in US military codes...
That's what
</tinfoil hat>
Meta will eat itself
2 ^ 32,582,657 - 1th post. Eventually...
Theory and practice are the same in theory, but different in practice.
I have the same combination on my luggage!
I ca... Oh crap.
"If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; But if you really make them think, they'll hate you." - DM
Or when converted to binary, it turned out to be an mp3 of the latest song from [insert-RIAA-label], and so they banned distribution of it :-p
The revolution will not be televised... but it will have a page on Wikipedia
Doesn't stand a chance against the one true prime...
OPTIMUS PRIME!
Let the commencement BEGINULATE!
*head explodes*
Note: This sig contains nine S's, nine I's and five O's which... means absolutely nothing.
Could be Bjork...
really? To me that sounds just like Justin Timberlake's latest stuff :S
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I'd tell you, but it doesn't fit in the comment limits.
Just list the factors... I'm sure we can do the math ourselves.
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