New Record Prime Found 112
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."
"Nothing to see here... (Score:3, Funny)
That's what
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Woo Hoo! (Score:3, Funny)
That's amazing! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Slow news day? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:You know what would be funny? (Score:4, Funny)
Pfft. Doesn't stand a chance... (Score:4, Funny)
OPTIMUS PRIME!
clicks text link... (Score:1, Funny)
*head explodes*
Re:You know what would be funny? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:You know what would be funny? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Biggest non-Mersenne prime? (Score:3, Funny)
Just list the factors... I'm sure we can do the math ourselves.