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New Prime Number Gimps Mersenne Prime Number found.

Gimps Mersenne New Prime Number

Is New Prime Number Gimps (Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search) Mersenne Prime Number found? It has just been confirmed that the 47^th Known prime number was found or it’s the second largest. On April 12^th, 2009 Odd Magnar Strindmo of Melhus, Norway, found the the 47th known Mersenne prime number: 242,643,801-1.  It is a 12,837,064 digit number but amazingly is not the largest! It is second largest, 141,125 digits smaller than the Mersenne prime found last August by a UCLA Mathematics Department’s computer. Strindmo has been working with the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search also well-known as GIMPS, since 1996. GIMPS is a worldwide group of amateur and professional mathematicians working together to discover new prime numbers. This is the 13th number to GIMPS has found in its 13 year history. Tags: gimps, Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search, known Mersenne prime number, mersenne prime, New prime number, np, prime number, prime numbers

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