Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 05:08:42PM -0800, Max wrote:Not really the first. There is another prime 5359 * 2^5054502 + 1 with 1521561 digits beating 37th Mersenne prime,
New prime 28433 * 2^7830457 + 1 was discovered within SoB project.
It has 2,357,207 digits ranging as the forth largest known prime.
See http://www.seventeenorbust.com/ for details.
Wow, that's something. Largest known non-Mersenne prime and all, and the first prime ever to beat a GIMPS-discovered prime (?) :-)
and a number of Generalized Fermat primes beating 35th Mersenne prime.
See http://www.utm.edu/research/primes/largest.html
Max
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