RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Student Finds Largest Known Prime Number

["Jerry Gamblin" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

"200,000 computers"

I am calling this number out, there is no way they had this many
computers looking for the number. At 500 MHZ processor per computer that
is 10,000 GHZ of raw processing power.


Jerry Gamblin
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-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Miller [mailto:EMAIL:PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 10:17 AM
To: MLUG discussion
Subject: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Student Finds Largest Known Prime Number

Student Finds Largest Known Prime Number
from Associated Press

DETROIT -- More than 200,000 computers spent years looking for the
largest
known prime number. It turned up on Michigan State University graduate
student Michael Shafer's off-the-shelf PC.

"It was just a matter of time," Shafer said.

The number is 6,320,430 digits long and would need 1,400 to 1,500 pages
to
write out. It is more than 2 million digits larger than the previous
largest known prime number.

Shafer, 26, helped find the number as a volunteer on an eight-year-old
project called the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search.

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