A Group to find the next Largest Prime Number

[Net]

$100,000 to the first individual or group who discovers
a prime number with at least 10,000,000 decimal digits

http://www.mersenne.org/

currently the 44th Known Mersenne Prime has been Found

Example of Mersenne Prime:
31 = 2^5 - 1, and 5 is a prime number, so 31 is a Mersenne number; and 31 is also a Mersenne prime because it is a prime number.

 

[petrusbroder]

Thanks for the info!

 

[Allio]

A good reason to run Seventeen or Bust!

 

[Net]

np, to give you a jump start get this out

http://www.mersenne.org/range2.htm

excerpt from page....
Available below are some 10,000,000 digit numbers for first time testing.

Test=38005129,68
Test=38005511,68
...

those are exponents. so 2^3800512929,68 could be a prime number.

 

[Spacehead]

I could use an extra 100 large

 

[Coquito]

Originally posted by: Spacehead
I could use an extra 100 large

I'll be sure to buy you an ice cream cone after they cut my check.

 

[compudog]

Excuse my ignorance, but what are we learning, mathematically, by finding the biggest Prime number? I understand what a prime number is, but really what is the point? This is you opportunity to enlighten.



...this coming from someone who searched for ET for years...

 

[Net]

the site says it's mostly recreational but has proved useful in development of new algorithms, testing computer hardware, and interesting young students in math.

it seems useful to me but your other folding projects probably have more significance. i really like math so this sparked my interest. plus one of the first c programs i wrote was finding primes. i liked the math section on that page (this is done by a mit professor) because i can use it to speed my old prime number program. the math portion talks about converting the exponent into binary then repeatedly square.........

 

[compudog]

Originally posted by: net
the site says it's mostly recreational but has proved useful in development of new algorithms, testing computer hardware, and interesting young students in math.

it seems useful to me but your other folding projects probably have more significance. i really like math so this sparked my interest. plus one of the first c programs i wrote was finding primes. i liked the math section on that page (this is done by a mit professor) because i can use it to speed my old prime number program. the math portion talks about converting the exponent into binary then repeatedly square.........

Thanks for the explanation net.