29-09-2008, 06:29 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2005
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New Prime Number
"In August of 2008, a new Mersenne Prime number was discovered on one of the computers belonging to the UCLA Mathematics Department's Program in Computing (PIC). This number turns out to be the World's Largest known prime number, and the discovery has generated a lot of interest. In an effort to save everyone time and energy, I thought I'd put some information up on the web in FAQ format...
The UCLA Mersenne Prime number is 2 to the power 43112609 - 1. The actual number has 12,978,189 digits. If you're so inclined, long-time Mersenne Prime researcher Landon Curt Noll has made the number itself available here. If you're really, really inclined, he also provides the entire number in English (all 328 megabytes of it) here."
http://www.math.ucla.edu/~edson/prime/
Last edited by glenc; 29-09-2008 at 06:46 AM.
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