[QUOTE=NBtarheel_33;327678]
Four hours exactly to go...but I'm going to agree with ixfd64 and make my final guess that M48 = 2^57881749-1. :bow:[/QUOTE]

Well... you're wrong. :smile:

It is up on mersenne.org!

Congratulations everyone. We couldn't have done it without you!

[QUOTE=Prime95;327702]Congratulations everyone. We couldn't have done it without you![/QUOTE]

:bow:

The link to the press release doesn't work...

Luigi

[QUOTE=Prime95;327702]Congratulations everyone. We couldn't have done it without you![/QUOTE]

Really sounds like all you need is curtisc lol

Congratulations! :smile:

[QUOTE=ET_;327703]:bow:

The link to the press release doesn't work...

Luigi[/QUOTE]

Ditto :smile:

[url]http://mersenne.org/primes/various/57885161.htm[/url]

when doing my calculations I added them to the wrong number and so got a wrong result. note for next time.

The number is a bit bigger than I expected!

Thankfully a pencil and paper was handy!

:snake1:

Random facts:

The prime is 17,425,170 digits long. The perfect number is 34,850,340 digits long.

Digit distribution for prime:

0: 1739652
1: 1743497
2: 1739844
3: 1745602
4: 1743528
5: 1739641
6: 1742677
7: 1743436
8: 1743298
9: 1743995

[QUOTE=davieddy;327680]Prematurely you spilled the beans and were duly ticked of by me and Tony.
Nice to see a bit of restraint this time around:smile:[/QUOTE]I don't remember ever breaking the unwritten rule of premature exponent exposure. Perhaps you are thinking of someone else?

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