New Mersenne Prime Discovered, Largest Known Prime Number: 2^74,207,281

New Mersenne Prime Discovered, Largest Known Prime Number: 2^74,207,281 - 1 (mersenne.org)

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday January 19, 2016 @03:01PM from the that's-my-phone-number dept.

Dave Knott writes: The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) has discovered a new largest known prime number, 2^74,207,281-1, having 22,338,618 digits. The same GIMPS software recently uncovered a flaw in Intel's latest Skylake CPUs, and its global network of CPUs peaking at 450 trillion calculations per second remains the longest continuously-running "grassroots supercomputing" project in Internet history. The prime is almost 5 million digits larger than the previous record prime number, in a special class of extremely rare prime numbers known as Mersenne primes. It is only the 49th known Mersenne prime ever discovered, each increasingly difficult to find.

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Re:PrimeCoins by dasunt · 2016-01-19 15:12 · Score: 3, Funny

You were the first comment, and you didn't take the opportunity to say "prime post!" :p
Mental note by aaarrrgggh · 2016-01-19 15:22 · Score: 4, Funny

Thanks, now I need to change private key.
Re:PrimeCoins by Livius · 2016-01-19 15:53 · Score: 5, Funny

Obviously prime posts start with the second one.
It's small. by Kwyj1b0 · 2016-01-19 17:05 · Score: 5, Funny

It's still smaller than the box Amazon Prime uses to send me a toothpick.
Re:PrimeCoins by fahrbot-bot · 2016-01-19 18:25 · Score: 3, Funny

Who is paying for prime numbers!!!
Mexico.

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