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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. Biggest non-Mersenne prime? by tepples · · Score: 2, Interesting

    So what's the biggest known prime number that's not a Mersenne number? Wikipedia's "Prime number" article states that it's a prime Proth number, but what about the biggest prime that's not of any special form? Or is that illegal to discuss on Slashdot, a server on US soil?