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

    I have the same combination on my luggage!

  2. Re:You know what would be funny? by kestasjk · · Score: 4, Informative

    I know that was a joke, but this gives the impression that this number in binary is a long stream of 1's and 0's.

    Seeing as 2^n is [1 followed by n 0's] in binary, and [1 followed by n 0's] minus 1 is [(n-1) 1's], this number in binary will just be 32,582,656 1's, which isn't decodeable as an MP3.

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    // MD_Update(&m,buf,j);
  3. 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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    Let the commencement BEGINULATE!