From: Spike Jones (spike66@ibm.net)
Date: Sat Jun 05 1999 - 00:35:16 MDT
Yes. I have been running GIMPS for almost a year. George notified
us Monday that a new Mersenne prime had probably been discovered,
but it must yet be verified independently by several supercomputers. spike
hal@finney.org wrote:
> BTW with regard to GIMPS, rumor has it that have succeeded in finding a new
> large prime:
>
> >From: George Woltman <woltman@alum.mit.edu>
>
> >> The 38th Mersenne prime was *probably* discovered today. The exponent
> >is in the 6,000,000s (the prime is in the neighborhood of 2,000,000 digits).
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