Archive for June 10th, 2004

The New Largest Prime Number Has Over 7 Million Digits

Thursday, June 10th, 2004

On May 15th, the discovery of a “new” Mersenne Prime number was announced by the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) project (found via Slashdot)

A while ago, I posted about how you could “help solve major science problems while your computer