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Tuesday, January 24, 2006

43rd Mersenne Prime Found!

Quoting from the site:


"On December 15, 2005, Dr. Curtis Cooper and Dr. Steven Boone, professors at Central Missouri State University, discovered the 43rd Mersenne Prime, 230,402,457-1.


The discovery is the largest known prime number.

The new prime is 9,152,052 digits long. "

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