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World's Longest Prime Number Found
It took 1,000 computers 39 days to come up with the longest prime number yet known. It has 17,425,170 digits and is calculated by multiplying 2 by itself 57,885,161 times and then subtracting 1. Curtis Cooper, a computer science professor at the University of Central Missouri who collaborated on the discovery of two earlier record prime numbers, is credited with the latest find. He is so passionate about prime numbers that he already has the university's computers crunching numbers in search of an even higher one, a task that could take between five and seven years.

daffydoug Eternal Order Look mom! I've got 14077 Posts	Posted: Feb 25, 2013 02:44 pm 0 World's Longest Prime Number Found It took 1,000 computers 39 days to come up with the longest prime number yet known. It has 17,425,170 digits and is calculated by multiplying 2 by itself 57,885,161 times and then subtracting 1. Curtis Cooper, a computer science professor at the University of Central Missouri who collaborated on the discovery of two earlier record prime numbers, is credited with the latest find. He is so passionate about prime numbers that he already has the university's computers crunching numbers in search of an even higher one, a task that could take between five and seven years. The difficult must become easy, the easy beautiful and the beautiful magical.
Tom Cutts Staff Northern CA 5930 Posts	Posted: Feb 25, 2013 03:09 pm 0 http://www.themagiccafe.com/forums/viewt......um=32&17
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