47th Mersenne Prime Confirmed 89
radiot88 writes to let us know that he heard a confirmation of the discovery of the 47th known Mersenne Prime on NPR's Science Friday (audio here). The new prime, 2^42,643,801 - 1, is actually smaller than the one discovered previously. It was "found by Odd Magnar Strindmo from Melhus, Norway. This prime is the second largest known prime number, a 'mere' 141,125 digits smaller than the Mersenne prime found last August. Odd is an IT professional whose computers have been working with GIMPS since 1996 testing over 1,400 candidates. This calculation took 29 days on a 3.0 GHz Intel Core2 processor. The prime was independently verified June 12th by Tony Reix of Bull SAS in Grenoble, France..."
Odd's prime (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Odd's prime (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Cool processor (Score:5, Funny)
I'm not sure where you live
He lives at home with his parents (or maybe in a dormitory room) and doesn't have a clue as to what it actually costs to run a home.
Re:Odd's prime (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Cool processor (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Odd's prime (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Can we have the value? (Score:4, Funny)
In base 2, it's 1111[42,643,792 more 1:s]1111.
In base 16 it's 0xffff[2,665,229 more f:s]ffff.
Re:And when they find the 50th... (Score:1, Funny)
.. the Great Old Ones will return, all life on earth will be destroyed.
Oh, come on, Biden isn't that bad.
Re:Why is this useful? (Score:1, Funny)
And nothing of value was found.