[ExI] [Bulk] Re: New prime number found

Tomaz Kristan protokol2020 at gmail.com
Wed Jan 20 20:57:06 UTC 2016


A remarkable observation, Spike. Remarkable indeed.

On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 9:16 PM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:

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> Subject: [Bulk] Re: [ExI] New prime number found
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> On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 1:37 PM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:
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> > Cool thanks for the heads up.  I heard when it was discovered but with
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> > a number that size it really is important to wait for a verification.
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> > The discovery came on the 20th anniversary of GIMPS, the Great
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> > Internet Mersenne Prime Search.
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> >>…So was that occurrence in the normal/expected frequency?
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> The signal remains consistent and shows that cumulative probability theory
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> I plotted log doubling time for the largest known prime against date.  For
> the last nearly 20 years since the start of GIMPS, that doubling time is
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> The doubling time since the previous record on 25 Jan 2013 is 5.7
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