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Default Largest Prime number ever FOUND! - 12-11-2003, 11:43 PM
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

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Default 12-11-2003, 11:48 PM
its in my bank account.
  
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Default 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.

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Default 12-11-2003, 11:57 PM
[quote="Cpt. Obvious":59fc9]what was the point of it.
i guess it was for bragging rights.


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Default 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
  
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Default 12-12-2003, 12:33 AM
probably the same reason we are wasting our time posting nonsence!?
  
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Default 12-12-2003, 12:35 AM
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I don't see why people waste their time doing this...also finding out how many digits follow PI
PGP.
  
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Default 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.
  
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Default 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.
  
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Default 12-12-2003, 09:08 AM
Math n3rds. rolleyes:

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Default 12-12-2003, 10:06 AM
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Math n3rds. rolleyes:

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

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Default Re: Largest Prime number ever FOUND! - 12-12-2003, 12:30 PM
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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.
  
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Default Re: Largest Prime number ever FOUND! - 12-12-2003, 01:12 PM
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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

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Default 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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