New Largest Known Prime Number: 2^57,885,161-1

Posted by timothy on Tuesday February 5, 2013 @05:07AM from the sorry-won't-fit-on-vanity-plate dept.

An anonymous reader writes with news from Mersenne.org, home of the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search: "On January 25th at 23:30:26 UTC, the largest known prime number, 257,885,161-1, was discovered on GIMPS volunteer Curtis Cooper's computer. The new prime number, 2 multiplied by itself 57,885,161 times, less one, has 17,425,170 digits. With 360,000 CPUs peaking at 150 trillion calculations per second, GIMPS — now in its 17th year — is the longest continuously-running global 'grassroots supercomputing' project in Internet history."

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Re:Uhhh... by amicusNYCL · 2013-02-05 05:34 · Score: 5, Funny

Hey, has anyone told you that your post is wrong yet?

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Re:Uhhh... by NoNonAlphaCharsHere · 2013-02-05 05:36 · Score: 4, Funny

Mathematics may not deal in disputed definitions, but Wikipedia certainly does.
Re:Wrong by Anonymous Coward · 2013-02-05 06:35 · Score: 5, Funny

I can't speak for other people, but I often use (2^57,885,161)-1 in casual conversation.