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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. This is like playing tabletennis alone by LiquidCoooled · · Score: 2, Insightful

    They say that they are on a winning streak and that lightening strikes twice etc, well I just say they are continuing running a program which can handle large numbers.
    The longer they run it the more they will find.
    They are getting all the records because noone else is "trying" as hard.

    Good luck that they get the 10million digits, but its just a pissing competition as far as I can see.
    They win 100,000 from the EFF for breaking it, but the computational power and time wasted has to be getting close to that itself.

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    liqbase :: faster than paper
  2. Re:Biggest non-Mersenne prime? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    what about the biggest prime that's not of any special form?

    I'd tell you, but it doesn't fit in the comment limits.

  3. Re:Help by FhnuZoag · · Score: 2, Insightful

    5*7-2 = 33 = 3*11

    Trust me. If it was this easy, we'd have heard of it long ago.