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Submission + - New Mersenne Prime Discovered

Submitted by Mini-Geek on Monday September 11, 2006 @05:31PM

Mini-Geek writes: GIMPS is reporting that the 44th Mersenne Prime has been discovered by the same team that found the 43rd Mersenne, Dr. Curtis Cooper and Dr. Steven Boone. The new prime is 232,582,657-1, weighing in at 9,808,358 digits. For more information see the full press release.

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