Nuri
02-19-2003, 01:39 PM
Now it's our turn :D
From GIMPS web site: http://mersenne.org/
62722^131072 + 1 prime. At 628,808 digits this is the 5th largest known prime number. This moves GIMPS first prime discovery, M1398269, into 6th place (Comment from Nuri: and our largest prime so far into 9th place :() . Now I must change the banner of every mersenne.org web page! Congratulations to discoverer Michael Angel and to Yves Gallot who wrote the program that discovered this generalized Fermat prime.
The list of 5,000 largest primes:
http://www.utm.edu/research/primes/ftp/all.txt
PS: If one of the numbers the SoB currently distributes turns out to be a prime, then it will be the fifth largest with ~860,000 digits.
Regards,
Nuri
From GIMPS web site: http://mersenne.org/
62722^131072 + 1 prime. At 628,808 digits this is the 5th largest known prime number. This moves GIMPS first prime discovery, M1398269, into 6th place (Comment from Nuri: and our largest prime so far into 9th place :() . Now I must change the banner of every mersenne.org web page! Congratulations to discoverer Michael Angel and to Yves Gallot who wrote the program that discovered this generalized Fermat prime.
The list of 5,000 largest primes:
http://www.utm.edu/research/primes/ftp/all.txt
PS: If one of the numbers the SoB currently distributes turns out to be a prime, then it will be the fifth largest with ~860,000 digits.
Regards,
Nuri