Foi descoberto um novo primo de Mersenne: 2^20996011-1. Vejam a notícia abaixo e o link para a home page do projeto que descobriu este e os últimos 5 maiores números primos.
[]s, N. =========================================================================== 1. GIMPS finds the 40th Mersenne Prime!!! ========================================= On November 17th GIMPS member Michael Shafer at Michigan State University proved 2^20996011-1 prime. At over 6.3 million digits it is easily the largest known prime number, beating GIMPS' 2 year old record of just over 4 million digits. You can read more about the discovery at the GIMPS Home page, http://www.mersenne.org Congratulations to Michael and all GIMPS members for our sixth success! Good luck to all in the search for the 41st Mersenne prime! With a lot of luck you could even share in the $100,000 EFF award for finding a 10,000,000 digit prime!! ========================================================================= Instruções para entrar na lista, sair da lista e usar a lista em http://www.mat.puc-rio.br/~nicolau/olimp/obm-l.html =========================================================================