Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 12:54:18 05/26/05
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On May 26, 2005 at 15:52:19, Dann Corbit wrote: >On May 26, 2005 at 14:18:37, Sune Fischer wrote: > >>On May 26, 2005 at 13:15:04, Dann Corbit wrote: >> >>>On May 26, 2005 at 12:02:37, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >>>[snip] >>>>Hello, i can calculate prime numbers up to 10 million digits at my pc nearly, >>>>though not within 5 minutes. >>> >>>Less than a second, I imagine. >> >>That's quite an imagination since there aren't any known primes that large :) I misread the statement as "finding the first ten million primes" >>Last I checked only a handful or so had been found with more than a million >>digits, and of course only through weeks of massively parallel super computer >>power. > >From: >http://www.mersenne.org/prime.htm > >The record is: >7,816,230 digits There is $100,000 for finding a ten million digit prime. In addition to the joy of making a mathematical discovery, you might win some cash. The Electronic Frontier Foundation is offering a $100,000 award to the first person or group to discover a ten million digit prime number! See how GIMPS will distribute this award if we are lucky enough to find a ten million digit prime.
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