Saturday, September 27, 2008
Prime mortage, prime rib, prime numbers....
Get a couple of computers, at lot of people at UCLA with too much time on their hands, and wola!...Come up with the longest biggest prime number. From Fox News; it is a 13 million digit prime number which now becomes the 46th Mersenne prime (named from a French mathematician Marine Mersenne). Prime numbers are only divisible by 1. Read about it here http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,429201,00.html. I'll have to jot it down myself. It may come in handy some day.
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Amazing computation power. Note that there is a $100,000 prize offered for the first prime in excess of 10 million digits offered by the Electronic Frontier Foundation. I would put myself down as a fan.
And it was found by computers running XP. Take that, Gates and Seinfeld!
I want to get a copy of that number, too. It'll make a great password.
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