45th and 46th Mersenne Primes Confirmed

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Posted by kdawson on Saturday September 13, 2008 @03:58PM from the interest-rate dept.

kahunak writes to alert us that GIMPS has announced that the 45th and 46th Mersenne primes have been confirmed. The EFF's $100,000 award, for the first prime over 10 million digits in length, will probably be claimed. (We discussed no. 45 when it was announced.)

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Re:So (Score:4, Insightful)

by Naughty Bob ( 1004174 ) * writes: on Saturday September 13, 2008 @04:47PM (#24993153)

The $100k award is not enough to cover the cost of sending the number through sms...
Even if sent in the form: (2^n)-1?

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Re:Unfortunately these primes can't be published.. (Score:2, Insightful)

by volxdragon ( 1297215 ) writes: on Saturday September 13, 2008 @05:42PM (#24993557)

... because they coincidentally correspond to two of Britney Spears's songs encoded as mp3 files at 128kb and the RIAA won't allow such copyright infringement! Double ouch!
If that's the case, no great loss, we wouldn't want to see (or hear) them anyway!

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