[QUOTE=Uncwilly;177323]Can someone post the leading and ending 20 numbers of the decimal expantion???[/QUOTE]

16987351645274162247...84101954765562314751

And another thanks to Lycorn who noticed this new prime on the server!

[quote=Uncwilly;177323]Can someone post the leading and ending 20 numbers of the decimal expantion???[/quote]
1,698,735,164,527,416,224,702 ... 384,101,954,765,562,314,751

[URL]http://prime.isthe.com/chongo/tech/math/prime/m42643801/prime-c.html[/URL]

[URL]http://71.6.220.162/[/URL] , the GIMPS homepage, has been updated as well.

Well done, George, and thank you very, very much. Thank you everyone who has contributed.

[quote=Primeinator;177326]16987351645274162247...84101954765562314751

And another thanks to Lycorn who noticed this new prime on the server![/quote]
Beaten by mere seconds! At least I put in 3 more digits?

And you posted commas as well...I would say you win!

Length and Tail
 

[QUOTE=Uncwilly;177323]Can someone post the leading and ending 20 numbers of the decimal expantion???[/QUOTE].....84101954765562314751
She has 12837064 digits.
Tony

I found mprint and did the number myself. I updated wikipedia.

Extreme Computing !
 

I was following the [URL="http://www.bull.com/extremecomputing/"]link [/URL]that George put on the GIMPS page about my company and have seen that there is a major [URL="http://www.supercomp.de/isc09/"]HPC exhibition[/URL] in Hambourg in 11 days.
[B][COLOR="Red"][SIZE="4"]Extreme Computing ! Year, we are doing it very well here at GIMPS !!!!!![/SIZE][/COLOR][/B]
Tony

Congratulation to stigmv, George, Tony and GIMPS.

[QUOTE=T.Rex;177313]Congratulations to the GIMPS and to George and to all you/us who made it !
M46 is born. (but she should wait for years before we are sure it is her final name...)
Tony[/QUOTE]

I think it will be quite a while before we are sure. According to the Milestones page there are still 438,446 exponents left to first time/verify before "she" officially becomes M46. Any guesses on how many years?

Mersenne Wiki needs updating.

Is "Odd M. Strindmo" an alias of Stig M. Valstad?