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Nyck 12-11-2003 11:43 PM

Largest Prime number ever FOUND!
 
who the hell cares!

its 2 to the 20,996,011th power minus 1

The number is 6,320,430 digits long and would need 1,400 to 1,500 pages to write out

http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/science/12 ... index.html

Madmartagen 12-11-2003 11:48 PM

its in my bank account.

Cpt. Obvious 12-11-2003 11:54 PM

what was the point of it.
i guess it was for bragging rights.


Geek 1- My prime number is bigger than yours.
Geek 2- So my theory on quantum physics owns yours.

oOo:

Nyck 12-11-2003 11:57 PM

[quote="Cpt. Obvious":59fc9]what was the point of it.
i guess it was for bragging rights.


Geek 1- My prime number is bigger than yours.
Geek 2- So my theory on quantum physics owns yours.
NyckMSS - I get laid
geeks bow before me

[/quote:59fc9]

Pyro 12-12-2003 12:31 AM

I don't see why people waste their time doing this...also finding out how many digits follow PI

Jimmy Paterson 12-12-2003 12:33 AM

probably the same reason we are wasting our time posting nonsence!?

BadScript 12-12-2003 12:35 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pyro
I don't see why people waste their time doing this...also finding out how many digits follow PI

PGP.

SoLiDUS 12-12-2003 12:58 AM

Primes are r0x0r...

Shit like this can be used in Cryptology.

Also, HE didn't find it alone: it was a multi-system effort. Every computer
crunched a bit of data but he just happened to be the lucky person who's
system performed the last few calculations before announcing a new prime.

ninty 12-12-2003 02:17 AM

I think that is amazing.

Think of how hard it is to find a number that large, that is only divisible by itself and one. It's mind boggling. You would think that after getting that large, it would have to be divisible by something, since there should be many combinations to get the number. Very cool.

Zoner 12-12-2003 09:08 AM

Math n3rds. rolleyes:

biggrin:

Mpoulos01 12-12-2003 10:06 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zoner
Math n3rds. rolleyes:

biggrin:

Forum Nerd biggrin:
But, I guess we all are one.

Zoner 12-12-2003 10:33 AM

Indeed. biggrin:

I'm not in "nerd denial". If there's a nerdy thing to do, I've probably done it.

Short Hand 12-12-2003 12:30 PM

Re: Largest Prime number ever FOUND!
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by NyckMSS
who the hell cares!

its 2 to the 20,996,011th power minus 1

The number is 6,320,430 digits long and would need 1,400 to 1,500 pages to write out

http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/science/12 ... index.html

I thought it would take 15000 pages to fill.

Nyck 12-12-2003 01:12 PM

Re: Largest Prime number ever FOUND!
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Short Hand":557fc][quote=NyckMSS]who the hell cares!

its 2 to the 20,996,011th power minus 1

The number is 6,320,430 digits long and would need 1,400 to 1,500 pages to write out

[url="http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/science/12/11/prime.number.ap/index.html
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/science/12 ... index.html[/url]

I thought it would take 15000 pages to fill.[/quote:557fc]

Thats the short hand form of the number to actually write the entire number out would take that many pages

Unknown_Sniper 12-12-2003 02:04 PM

meh Primes. and by the way I already knew this biggrin: but that is a huge number.


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