Dyyryath
12-22-2003, 02:05 AM
The guys at Seventeen or Bust are happy this month:<br><br><table width="90%" border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="1" bordercolor="#63635A" bgcolor="#E7E7E2" align="center"><tr><td style="font-size: 12px; font-style: italic;">On 6 December 2003, at 3:42:02 PM EST, the 1,521,561-digit prime was reported to the server. Due to the size of the number, it took 7 days to verify. The number weighs in as the 4th largest prime ever discovered. The story of the lucky participant, Randy Sundquist [stats], fits well with the discovery's timing:<br><br>"The prime was found on a computer I made out of old parts for my sister, who is going to school in Madison, WI. I installed the client to test the machine for a few days. The first and only work it did resulted in the prime!"</td></tr></table><br><br>You can read more about this <a href="http://www.seventeenorbust.com/">right here</a>.<br><br>I always love seeing a distributed computing project meeting it's goals! Congrats, guys. Keep up the good work! <img src=http://www.free-dc.org/images/news/icon14.gif>