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em99010pepe
12-16-2005, 04:29 PM
Thread (http://www.mersenneforum.org/showthread.php?t=5139&highlight=mersenne+prime).

Carlos
Digital Parasite
12-16-2005, 09:43 PM
Should be exciting. Can't wait to start verifying this one but I think George W. is out of town right now.
TTn
12-17-2005, 11:39 AM
I hope it's another false positive.
Ofcourse my opinion is completely subjective. heha
If it is prime, there WILL NOT be another one, for a few years.

I did predict the last false positive, which was against the odds.
Curiously I also predicted my last name would be fixed to a Mersenne prime, and behold Josh Findley!
The kicker is that my sons name is Joshua, named after the computer from war games.

What a quantam world we live in...
em99010pepe
12-24-2005, 11:47 AM
Prime95 said:


The verification is complete and we have confirmed the new Mersenne prime. Thanks, Tony! And congratulations to all GIMPS searchers.
birdman2584
01-04-2006, 03:53 PM
It made the top headlines on Yahoo! news:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060104/ap_on_sc/largest_prime_number

always good to get some DC in the news.
PS2pcGAMER
01-05-2006, 12:58 AM
It made the top headlines on Yahoo! news:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060104/ap_on_sc/largest_prime_number

always good to get some DC in the news.

That is great news for the project. That's the thing I like about math projects, even though they may not seem to benefit medicine like some projects, you definitely can see results a lot faster.