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37th Mersenne Prime Number Found

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday February 03, 1998 @09:39AM from the yipes-I-hate-math dept.

Well the title pretty much sums it up. Number 37 was discovered recently- you can read about it here. This is yet another excellent example of widely distributed computing doing something cool. We look forward to the Great Internet Prime Number Search's next riveting discovery *grin*.

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