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New Record Prime Found

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the mersenne-is-a-gimp dept.

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."

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  1. Woo Hoo! by nystagman · · Score: 3, Funny

    2 ^ 32,582,657 - 1th post. Eventually...

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  2. That's amazing! by johnfink · · Score: 5, Funny

    I have the same combination on my luggage!

  3. Re:You know what would be funny? by x2A · · Score: 3, Funny

    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

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  4. Pfft. Doesn't stand a chance... by Mister+Impressive · · Score: 4, Funny

    Doesn't stand a chance against the one true prime...

    OPTIMUS PRIME!

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  5. Re:You know what would be funny? by r00k123 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Could be Bjork...