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Mo. Researchers Find Largest Prime Number - Yahoo! News
Because, y'know, there are no more after that one.
Didn't someone's senior thesis involve Mersenne Primes?
Friday, January 06, 2006
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I noticed they gave this number a name like they do with newly-discovered planets...
ReplyDeleteAnd now they plan to do what with this awesome new find? I could be wrong, but I thought the equation for world peace called for just such a number. Or that could have been the solution to the world hunger problem. Or maybe just a complex traveling salesman one.