[extropy-chat] record prime verified

spike spike66 at comcast.net
Sun Dec 25 06:02:21 UTC 2005


The 43rd Mersenne prime has been verified several
days ahead of schedule: 2^30,402,457-1.  The new largest
known prime number has a little over 9 million decimal 
digits, so the 100 kiloclams is still up for grabs.  The 
size of the largest known prime doubled every 6 seconds
averaged over the interval from last February to now.

Kewalllllllll...

{8-]

spike








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