Topic: Dang It, and I was off by one digit...

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40th Mersenne Prime confirmation proves power of P2P

You count them in, you count them out again


By INQUIRER staff: Tuesday 02 December 2003, 21:48

EARLIER REPORTS that peer to peer software had discovered a 40th Mersenne Prime have been confirmed by the GIMPS pursuing the ultimate numbers.
The boffins have said the newly discovered Mersenne Prime is 220,996,011-1, or 2 to the 20,996,011th power minus 1.

Michael Shafer picked it up on the 17th November last, as a result of using prime 95 on his office computer.

And the discovery was verified by Guillermo Ballester Valor on November 30, using Glucas on a quad Itanium-II machine.

But that machine only used two of the four available processors. Glucas was three days faster than a Pentium 4 2.1GHz single CPU machine, the boffins report. [2.1GHz? Does Intel make that speed? Ed.]

Shafer is a chemical engineering student at Michigan State University. µ

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I've always been a mathmatical Freak, And lovve Counting Numbers, prime's etc. i had t share this story with you all, as this Is pretty big mathmaticly speaking.

stephen

[Toasty0]

 

Oy, this site is sadisticly funny...  

[762]

Um, WTF is a Mersenne Prime? Just an insanely big prime number?

[Sirgod]

Quote:
Um, WTF is a Mersenne Prime? Just an insanely big prime number?  

this Article can explain It abit better then I can.  Link

 

Quote:
Prime numbers have long fascinated amateur and professional mathematicians. An integer greater than one is called a prime number if its only divisors are one and itself. The first prime numbers are 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, etc. For example, the number 10 is not prime because it is divisible by 2 and 5. A Mersenne prime is a prime of the form 2P-1. The first Mersenne primes are 3, 7, 31, 127, etc. There are only 40 known Mersenne primes.

GIMPS, the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search, was formed in January 1996 to discover new world-record-size Mersenne primes. GIMPS harnesses the power of thousands of small computers like yours to search for these "needles in a haystack".

Most GIMPS members join the search for the thrill of possibly discovering a record-setting, rare, and historic new Mersenne prime. Of course, there are many other reasons.

 

It's really kinda fasciniting I think. I got hooked into Primes, and Number Theory after reading a book about a guy Named Rashmaud or something Like that. I'll have to go and find the book to get his name right. anyway, he was a mathmatical Genious from India, who was lucky enough to get a job at Cambridge. Some of his works still Baffle Mathmaticians today. Unforunatly, he also died at a very young age, and we lost Alot of Math Theory with his passing.

Stephen

[762]

Thanks Steve, neat stuff.

[Sirgod]

 hehe

40th Mersenne Prime confirmation proves power of P2P

You count them in, you count them out again


By INQUIRER staff: Tuesday 02 December 2003, 21:48

EARLIER REPORTS that peer to peer software had discovered a 40th Mersenne Prime have been confirmed by the GIMPS pursuing the ultimate numbers.
The boffins have said the newly discovered Mersenne Prime is 220,996,011-1, or 2 to the 20,996,011th power minus 1.

Michael Shafer picked it up on the 17th November last, as a result of using prime 95 on his office computer.

And the discovery was verified by Guillermo Ballester Valor on November 30, using Glucas on a quad Itanium-II machine.

But that machine only used two of the four available processors. Glucas was three days faster than a Pentium 4 2.1GHz single CPU machine, the boffins report. [2.1GHz? Does Intel make that speed? Ed.]

Shafer is a chemical engineering student at Michigan State University. µ

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I've always been a mathmatical Freak, And lovve Counting Numbers, prime's etc. i had t share this story with you all, as this Is pretty big mathmaticly speaking.

stephen

[Toasty0]

 

Oy, this site is sadisticly funny...  

[762]

Um, WTF is a Mersenne Prime? Just an insanely big prime number?

[Sirgod]

Quote:
Um, WTF is a Mersenne Prime? Just an insanely big prime number?  

this Article can explain It abit better then I can.  Link

 

Quote:
Prime numbers have long fascinated amateur and professional mathematicians. An integer greater than one is called a prime number if its only divisors are one and itself. The first prime numbers are 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, etc. For example, the number 10 is not prime because it is divisible by 2 and 5. A Mersenne prime is a prime of the form 2P-1. The first Mersenne primes are 3, 7, 31, 127, etc. There are only 40 known Mersenne primes.

GIMPS, the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search, was formed in January 1996 to discover new world-record-size Mersenne primes. GIMPS harnesses the power of thousands of small computers like yours to search for these "needles in a haystack".

Most GIMPS members join the search for the thrill of possibly discovering a record-setting, rare, and historic new Mersenne prime. Of course, there are many other reasons.

 

It's really kinda fasciniting I think. I got hooked into Primes, and Number Theory after reading a book about a guy Named Rashmaud or something Like that. I'll have to go and find the book to get his name right. anyway, he was a mathmatical Genious from India, who was lucky enough to get a job at Cambridge. Some of his works still Baffle Mathmaticians today. Unforunatly, he also died at a very young age, and we lost Alot of Math Theory with his passing.

Stephen

[762]

Thanks Steve, neat stuff.

[Sirgod]

 hehe

40th Mersenne Prime confirmation proves power of P2P

You count them in, you count them out again


By INQUIRER staff: Tuesday 02 December 2003, 21:48

EARLIER REPORTS that peer to peer software had discovered a 40th Mersenne Prime have been confirmed by the GIMPS pursuing the ultimate numbers.
The boffins have said the newly discovered Mersenne Prime is 220,996,011-1, or 2 to the 20,996,011th power minus 1.

Michael Shafer picked it up on the 17th November last, as a result of using prime 95 on his office computer.

And the discovery was verified by Guillermo Ballester Valor on November 30, using Glucas on a quad Itanium-II machine.

But that machine only used two of the four available processors. Glucas was three days faster than a Pentium 4 2.1GHz single CPU machine, the boffins report. [2.1GHz? Does Intel make that speed? Ed.]

Shafer is a chemical engineering student at Michigan State University. µ

- ---------

I've always been a mathmatical Freak, And lovve Counting Numbers, prime's etc. i had t share this story with you all, as this Is pretty big mathmaticly speaking.

stephen

[Toasty0]

 

Oy, this site is sadisticly funny...  

[762]

Um, WTF is a Mersenne Prime? Just an insanely big prime number?

[Sirgod]

Quote:
Um, WTF is a Mersenne Prime? Just an insanely big prime number?  

this Article can explain It abit better then I can.  Link

 

Quote:
Prime numbers have long fascinated amateur and professional mathematicians. An integer greater than one is called a prime number if its only divisors are one and itself. The first prime numbers are 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, etc. For example, the number 10 is not prime because it is divisible by 2 and 5. A Mersenne prime is a prime of the form 2P-1. The first Mersenne primes are 3, 7, 31, 127, etc. There are only 40 known Mersenne primes.

GIMPS, the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search, was formed in January 1996 to discover new world-record-size Mersenne primes. GIMPS harnesses the power of thousands of small computers like yours to search for these "needles in a haystack".

Most GIMPS members join the search for the thrill of possibly discovering a record-setting, rare, and historic new Mersenne prime. Of course, there are many other reasons.

 

It's really kinda fasciniting I think. I got hooked into Primes, and Number Theory after reading a book about a guy Named Rashmaud or something Like that. I'll have to go and find the book to get his name right. anyway, he was a mathmatical Genious from India, who was lucky enough to get a job at Cambridge. Some of his works still Baffle Mathmaticians today. Unforunatly, he also died at a very young age, and we lost Alot of Math Theory with his passing.

Stephen

[762]

Thanks Steve, neat stuff.