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Mersenne prime [mər′sen ¦prīm] (mathematics) A Mersenne number that is also a prime number. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| That fact that this discovery does nothing for global warming, worldwide hunger, pandemic AIDS, poverty, despair and war, pales in comparison to knowing that a university has discovered a Mersenne prime, 2 to the 30,402,457th power minus 1. 18, the computer-based Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) turned up the largest known prime number, whose formula is 2 to the 25,964,951st power minus 1. org announced today that Michael Cameron, a 20 year-old participant in the worldwide mathematics research project called the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS), has discovered the largest known prime number using his PC connected to the Entropia Mersenne Grid. |
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