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UCLA group discovers humungous prime number
AP via SFGate ^
| 9/27/8
Posted on 09/27/2008 9:55:04 AM PDT by SmithL
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Mathematicians at UCLA have discovered a 13-million-digit prime number, a long-sought milestone that makes them eligible for a $100,000 prize.
The group found the 46th known Mersenne prime last month on a network of 75 computers running Windows XP. The number was verified by a different computer system running a different algorithm.
"We're delighted," said UCLA's Edson Smith, the leader of the effort. "Now we're looking for the next one, despite the odds."
It's the eighth Mersenne prime discovered at UCLA.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
TOPICS: Education; Science
KEYWORDS: mathmatics; primenumber
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I'm impressed
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posted on
09/27/2008 9:55:05 AM PDT
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SmithL
To: SmithL
Shouldn’t the computers win the award? They found it!
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posted on
09/27/2008 9:58:54 AM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
To: Secret Agent Man
Can someone post the number please?
j/k
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posted on
09/27/2008 10:00:18 AM PDT
by
BookaT
(My cat's breath smells like cat food!)
To: SmithL
They found it when looking at the numbers for our national debt.
LQ
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posted on
09/27/2008 10:02:08 AM PDT
by
LizardQueen
(The world is not out to get you, except in the sense that the world is out to get everyone.)
To: SmithL
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posted on
09/27/2008 10:02:31 AM PDT
by
AJFavish
(www.allanfavish.com)
To: SmithL
On Windows XP? Never! (note my tagline...)
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posted on
09/27/2008 10:03:16 AM PDT
by
dware
(3 prohibited topics in mixed company: politics, religion and operating systems...)
To: SmithL
To: AprilfromTexas
And how does this help me?
To: AprilfromTexas
I think the word you want is “kewl”.
To: SmithL
Mathematicians at UCLA have discovered a 13-million-digit prime number, a long-sought milestone that makes them eligible for a $100,000 prize.
Oddly enough, it happens to coincide with the numbers of votes casted for Democrats by dead people and illegal aliens during the past 50 years.
To: SmithL
The article doesn;t mention that they found the 46th Mersenne prime and thought it was the 45th Mersenne prime, but then discovered while checking their work that another number was the 45th Mersenne prime, and that the number they thought was the 45th was actually the 46th.
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posted on
09/27/2008 10:14:45 AM PDT
by
wideawake
(Why is it that those who like to be called Constitutionalists know the least about the Constitution?)
To: wideawake
I’m sure they weren’t Pell Grant students.
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posted on
09/27/2008 10:21:01 AM PDT
by
yorkie01
To: SmithL
Did taxpayer $$$ fund this? We should get the prize.
To: willgolfforfood
To: SmithL
What’s the largest known subprime number?
To: AprilfromTexas
No problem. Texas lad helping out a Texas lass.
To: SmithL
Mathematicians at UCLA have discovered a 13-million-digit prime number, a long-sought milestone that makes them eligible for a $100,000 prize. If it's been long-sought, then I presume there must have been a need for it. What can the need be or what can one do with it?
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posted on
09/27/2008 11:10:05 AM PDT
by
varon
(Allegiance to the constitution, always. Allegiance to a political party, never.)
To: Verginius Rufus
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posted on
09/27/2008 12:08:58 PM PDT
by
SmithL
(Drill Dammit!)
To: SmithL
Thats just their recent rush defense statistics in from the NCAA.
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posted on
09/27/2008 12:55:43 PM PDT
by
FlJoePa
To: varon
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posted on
09/27/2008 4:42:18 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
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