A computer has just reported discovering the 41st known Mersenne Prime
“A computer has just reported discovering the 41st known Mersenne Prime!! If proven correct, this will be the new largest known prime.
“The test was run using version 23 with its better false-positive screening.
I’ve emailed the user and asked for a copy of the save file with a few
thousand iterations left to go. If he emails that file to me and re-running
the last iterations again shows the number to be prime, then we will
know the report is accurate.[followed later, at 23h23]
“The newly reported prime is genuine. The user has sent in his last savefile.
I reran the final 15,000 iterations and rediscovered the prime!!“Congratulations to all GIMPS participants on our 7th Mersenne prime!
“The official different hardware, different software test has not begun. This
test should take a month, after which we’ll announce the exponent.
George Woltman”
More info about the GIMPS project: http://www.mersenne.org/prime.htm
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