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Record-setting prime number found | |
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| Time: 05:29 EST/10:29 GMT | News Source: MSNBC | Posted By: Jonathan Tigner | ||
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More than 200,000 computers spent years looking for the largest known prime number. It turned up on Michigan State University graduate student Michael Shafer’s off-the-shelf PC. “It was just a matter of time,” Shafer said. THE NUMBER is 6,320,430 digits long and would need 1,400 to 1,500 pages to write out. It is more than 2 million digits larger than the previous largest known prime number. |
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| #1 By 415 (199.8.64.81) at Thursday, December 11, 2003 09:43:46 AM |
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Michael's prize for this difficult, important work...
A Cookie ;-) |
| #2 By 9156 (192.55.140.2) at Thursday, December 11, 2003 03:32:10 PM |
| How in the world does this matter to us? |
| #3 By 2960 (68.100.36.242) at Friday, December 12, 2003 12:38:49 PM |
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Some folks have WAY too much time on their hands :)
TL |
