New Prime Number Gimps Mersenne Prime Number found.
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New Prime Number Gimps Mersenne Prime Number found.
Is New Prime Number Gimps (Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search) Mersenne Prime Number found? It has just been confirmed that the 47th Known prime number was found or it’s the second largest.
On April 12th, 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.
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