[QUOTE=Prime95;142684][B]Congratulations and thanks to everyone!!!![/B] GIMPS is a group effort. While a few lucky discoverers get the glory, they couldn't have done it without all the hard work put in by the rest of you.

You are hereby ordered to have a celebratory drink tonight.

Thanks too for your patience during the verification and announcement process.[/QUOTE]

CONGRATULATIONS to everyone and I'm proud to be part of it all.

In the immortal words of Steven McCrosky (Lloyd Bridges) in Airplane (1980): "Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit drinking."

Too bad this forum won't let me attach the wav file.

It looks like [url=http://geekz.co.uk/schneierfacts/fact/365]Bruce Schneier is going to have to change his luggage combination again[/url]. :smile:

[QUOTE=MooooMoo;141024]Tony's verification run started on September 2nd and is expected to complete on Sept. 13th. This is 11 days, or 950,400 seconds. Let's assume that TRex's run is completing at 0.0222 sec/iter, very similar to ewmayer's 0.0224 sec/iter in the quote above. That means it's being finished at 45 iterations/sec.

Therefore, 950,400 seconds * 45 iterations/sec = [b]42,768,000,[/b] which is well into the 10M+ digit range.
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Close, but no cigar. Congrats to GIMPS for finding the primes.

[QUOTE=uigrad;142713]I noticed that at Wikipedia, the August prime is listed as #47, and the September prime is #46. I suppose this is the way they'll always* be listed now.

M46 is the lowest known prime with more than 10M digits, but M47 won the prize!


*note: "always" is not the correct term, since new mersenne primes less than M47 may still be found.[/QUOTE]

That's very strange. These are the 45th and 46th Mersenne primes, not the 46th and 47th. EDIT: The wikipedia page is correct now.

Also, Caldwell has now updated his website.

What are the chances of finding a third Mersenne prime this year? I keep getting this odd feeling that we'll find one early this December.

Edson Smith now holds the world record... I'll be sure to congratulate him later this week.

[QUOTE=jinydu;142732]Edson Smith now holds the world record... I'll be sure to congratulate him later this week.[/QUOTE]

If I remember correctly, you go to UCLA, right?

[QUOTE=R.D. Silverman;142683]It would be nice, from a mathematical point of view, if GIMPS were to stop looking for NEW primes (now that we have a prime > 10M digits) and instead were to work on filling in the GAPS.[/QUOTE]

Bob, GIMPS is continuously working to "fill in the gaps" - the disparity between the new discoveries simply gives one an idea of the width of the "GIMPS wavefront".

p-1 = 37156666 = 2 * 19 * 59 * 16573
q-1 = 43112608 = 2^5 * 7 * 11 * 17497

Besides the Beastly digit string in the smaller prime exponent and the modestly large power-of-2 dividing q-1 [which pales compared to the 2^10 dividing 32582657-1], nothing especially interesting about the minus-one factorizations.

[QUOTE=ixfd64;142733]If I remember correctly, you go to UCLA, right?[/QUOTE]

I graduated this June. But I know Edson Smith; he is in charge of the computing lab that I used regularly from my first quarter at UCLA to my last.

[QUOTE=jinydu;142723]Also, Caldwell has now updated his website.[/QUOTE]Which page ? Not this [URL="http://primes.utm.edu/mersenne/"]one[/URL] !
Oh, this [URL="http://primes.utm.edu/top20/page.php?sort=Mersenne"]one[/URL] !
Tony

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