New Largest Known Prime Number: 2^57,885,161-1

An anonymous reader writes with news from Mersenne.org, home of the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search: "On January 25th at 23:30:26 UTC, the largest known prime number, 257,885,161-1, was discovered on GIMPS volunteer Curtis Cooper's computer. The new prime number, 2 multiplied by itself 57,885,161 times, less one, has 17,425,170 digits. With 360,000 CPUs peaking at 150 trillion calculations per second, GIMPS — now in its 17th year — is the longest continuously-running global 'grassroots supercomputing' project in Internet history."

Re:Uhhh...

[amicusNYCL]

Hey, has anyone told you that your post is wrong yet?

Re:Uhhh...

[NoNonAlphaCharsHere]

Mathematics may not deal in disputed definitions, but Wikipedia certainly does.

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Son of a bitch

[UnknowingFool]

Now I have to find a new combination to my luggage. Again.

Re:Wrong

[Anonymous Coward]

I can't speak for other people, but I often use (2^57,885,161)-1 in casual conversation.