Latest Prime Found

Wednesday 28 December 2005 at 2:17 pm | In Articles | 3 Comments

Using 700 computers a new Mersenne prime has been found. It is 2^{30,402,457}-1 and has 9,152,052 digits. The $100,000 prize for a prime with more than 10 million digits is still up for grabs!

More at ZDNet News and GIMPS.

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  1. If you use one of those programs that searches for primes during your computer’s idle time (similar to the SETI@home thing) and you unearth the 10m digit prime, do you get the prize, or does it go to the program makers?

    Comment by Craig — Wednesday 4 January 2006 7:55 am #

  2. GIMPS would claim the prize and you would get half of it, the other half being distributed amongst previous prime discoverers. The full details can be found at Monetary Awards where it says that Your chance of success is roughly 1 in 250,000.

    Comment by Steve — Wednesday 4 January 2006 6:20 pm #

  3. hi dear friend…
    I am a student of mathematics in Iran, and have a weblog about mathematics to express its beauty for spread mathematics in Iran society !
    I will be glad to get closer with you for sharin the Ideas…
    be successful…
    milad

    Comment by milad — Wednesday 25 January 2006 10:29 pm #

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