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- noun The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search, a collaborative project using home computers to find large prime numbers.
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Today the distributed computing project called GIMPS, or Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search, has confirmed it has discovered the largest prime number ever at almost 13 million digits long.
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The twelve largest known Mersenne primes (including the latest) have all been discovered by GIMPS, which is a distributed computing project being undertaken by an international collaboration of volunteers.
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The twelve largest known Mersenne primes (including the latest) have all been discovered by GIMPS, which is a distributed computing project being undertaken by an international collaboration of volunteers.
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The twelve largest known Mersenne primes (including the latest) have all been discovered by GIMPS, which is a distributed computing project being undertaken by an international collaboration of volunteers.
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The twelve largest known Mersenne primes (including the latest) have all been discovered by GIMPS, which is a distributed computing project being undertaken by an international collaboration of volunteers.
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The twelve largest known Mersenne primes (including the latest) have all been discovered by GIMPS, which is a distributed computing project being undertaken by an international collaboration of volunteers.
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The twelve largest known Mersenne primes (including the latest) have all been discovered by GIMPS, which is a distributed computing project being undertaken by an international collaboration of volunteers.
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The twelve largest known Mersenne primes (including the latest) have all been discovered by GIMPS, which is a distributed computing project being undertaken by an international collaboration of volunteers.
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The twelve largest known Mersenne primes (including the latest) have all been discovered by GIMPS, which is a distributed computing project being undertaken by an international collaboration of volunteers.
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VIEW FAVORITES yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = '47th Known Mersenne Prime Apparently Discovered, by Eric Weisstein'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Less than a year after the 45th and 46th known Mersenne primes were discovered, Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) project organizer George Woltman is reporting in a June 7 email to the GIMPS mailing list that a new Mersenne number has been flagged as prime and reported to the project\'s server.'
OpEdNews - Quicklink: 47th Known Mersenne Prime Apparently Discovered, by Eric Weisstein 2009
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