CMSU computing team discovers another record size prime
Monday, September 11, 2006
Less than a year after the discovery of a record size, the same team from the discovered yet another record holder on September 4, 2006. The primality of this number was verified on September 11, 2006. The team were participants of an online project called .
The number is 232,582,657 − 1, extending out to an astonshing 9,808,358 decimal digits. These rare prime numbers are known as. So far, only 44 of these are known.
Although the number is just shy of the 10 million digits required for the $100,000 prize offered by the, participants are always looking forward to new primes.
- "Distributed computing discovers largest known prime number" — Wikinews, December 30, 2005