M40 has been verified!

[pointwood]

The verification of M40 completed yesterday - success! Congratulation everyone.

I've been without Internet access for 2 days, so please forgive the late post. This was a bad time to move!

Scott has been coordinating the press announcement. I expect he'll tell me to announce the exponent on mersenne.org in the next 48 hours.


Hint: GIMPS data miners are very clever.....

From the bottom of this page: http://www.mersenneforum.org/showthread.php?threadid=1420&perpage=25&pagenumber=4

:smoking:

[FoBoT]

published news story link (http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994438)


Michael Shafer a chemical engineering student at Michigan State University used his office computer to contribute spare processing power to the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS). The project has more than 60,000 volunteers from all over the world taking part.