The New Largest Prime Number Has Over 7 Million Digits
Thursday, June 10th, 2004On May 15th, the discovery of a “new” Mersenne Prime number was announced by the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) project (found via Slashdot)
A while ago, I posted about how you could “help solve major science problems while your computer’s idling“. If you want to join the hunt for larger and larger Mersenne Prime numbers, you can download a program from mersenne.org to help in the search. To find out how Mersenne Primes differ from ordinary primes, check out the GIMPS FAQ.