[extropy-chat] new mersenne prime probable

[spike]

Wooooohoooo!

We may have our 42nd Mersenne prime.  It isn't the
100,000 dollar winning ten million digit, but Woltman
has reported that the result came from one of our
seasoned veterans on GIMPS.  So there is a very
good chance its fer real.  I'll report back in
a couple weeks with confirmation or otherwise.

spike


http://mathworld.wolfram.com/news/2005-02-18/mersenne/

http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/02/18/1855206&tid=146&tid=14