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[jeepin_in_az]

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Researchers at a Missouri university have identified the largest known prime number, officials said Tuesday.

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The team at Central Missouri State University, led by associate dean Steven Boone and mathematics professor Curtis Cooper, found it in mid-December after programming 700 computers years ago.

A prime number is a positive number divisible by only itself and 1 — 2, 3, 5, 7 and so on.

The number that the team found is 9.1 million digits long. It is a Mersenne prime known as M30402457 — that's 2 to the 30,402,457th power minus 1.

Mersenne primes are a special category expressed as 2 to the "p" power minus 1, in which "p" also is a prime number.

"We're super excited," said Boone, a chemistry professor. "We've been looking for such a number for a long time."

The discovery is affiliated with the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search, a global contest using volunteers who run software that searches for the largest Mersenne prime.



Now...WTF would you NEED a "such a number" for????

[DsrtJeeper]

Why do sane people buy new Jeeps and beat the $hit out of them in the rocks?

Because they can. ;)

[My1stJeep]

Well then based on the fact the government paid for this we should get paid for taking out Jeeps and beating them on rocks.

Largest Prime Number = 9.1 million numbers

New Jeep Beatin on Rocks = Fun, Enjoyment, Quality Family Time

See they have a result and so do we!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Now where is my money?


ROFLMAO

[SavageSun4x4]

Now...WTF would you NEED a "such a number" for????
Well, I lost that number here while back and I have been looking for it ever since.

I used to go to Kansas on business about once a week or so. And for those of you who have spent any time up there then you also know that other than looking far a prime number there is not a lot to do. This is the state where the State animal is a tick, state bird is a mosquitio and the state plant is poision ivy.

[DsrtJeeper]

Well, I lost that number here while back and I have been looking for it ever since.

I used to go to Kansas on business about once a week or so. And for those of you who have spent any time up there then you also know that other than looking far a prime number there is not a lot to do. This is the state where the State animal is a tick, state bird is a mosquitio and the state plant is poision ivy.

LMAO!!!!!!!!! So true. Sorry Kansas folks. :D

[1BLKJP]

Well, I lost that number here while back and I have been looking for it ever since.

I used to go to Kansas on business about once a week or so. And for those of you who have spent any time up there then you also know that other than looking far a prime number there is not a lot to do. This is the state where the State animal is a tick, state bird is a mosquitio and the state plant is poision ivy.

Hell I grew up there and I thought it was right on. :D Good reasons why I live in AZ now. :D

Sounds like those boys spent too much time on this instead of out hunting for the right 7 digit numbers when they were young. :D

[jeepin_in_az]

Ya, my wife was a little pissed that I emailed this to her...she is from KansASS too...

I refuse to go back there anymore...it just plain blows.