45th Known Mersenne Prime Found?

An anonymous reader writes "The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) has apparently discovered a new world-record prime number. A GIMPS client computer reported the number on August 23rd, and verification is currently under way. The verification could take up to two weeks to complete. The last Mersenne prime discovered was over 9.8 million digits long, strongly suggesting that the new value may break the 10 million digit barrier — qualifying for the EFF's $100,000 prize!"

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Re:Moore-Otsuka-Helkenberg prime number sieve

[Jizzbug]

The process of addition (or in our case, remainder mod 10) requires no spiritualism.

Er... I meant "remainder mod 9".

But what I really meant was "Ramans' formula", which we "independently discovered" before we realized we were working with "digital roots".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_root#Ramans.27_formula

Yes, we know we're amateurs, we know we don't have academic training. We actually came up with the sieve while watching Gay Niggers of Outerspace, and since we're obviously not smart we call this "Gay Nigger math".

Brainfucked 45th Mersenne Prime

[suck_burners_rice]

Quick! Someone write a program in Brainfuck to verify this! I'd punch in the program right here, but /.'s "junk" filter would tell me to go shove it where the sun don't shine!