Now the "meta news" kicks in...

[URL="http://www.businessinsider.com/scientists-just-found-a-new-prime-number--with-17-million-digits-2013-2"]Business Insider: Mathematicians Just Found A New Prime Number — With 17 Million Digits[/URL]... which is reporting on what New Scientist reported.

M42643801: [URL="http://www.mersenneforum.org/showpost.php?p=175938&postcount=16"]http://www.mersenneforum.org/showpost.php?p=175938&postcount=16[/URL]
[QUOTE=joblack;175938]I have found it but strangely it shows that it was found on 2009-04-12 02:27 - that can't be secret for so long?
[URL="http://mersenne.org/report_LL/?exp_lo=20000000&exp_hi=60000000&exp_date=&user_only=1&user_id=stigmv&exbad=1&exfactor=1&dispdate=1&B1=Get+LL+data"]
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M57885161:
[QUOTE]On January 25th at 23:30:26 UTC, the largest known prime number, 257,885,161-1, was discovered on Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) volunteer Curtis Cooper's computer.[/QUOTE]


So this huge gap in GIMPS primes was from April 12th 2009 02:27 UTC to January 25th 2013 23:30:26 UTC, which is:

3 years 288 days 21h03m26s =
197.83963 weeks =
1384.87738 days =
33,237.05722 hours =
1,994,223.43333 minutes =
119,653,406 seconds

We made it below 200 weeks and just below 2,000,000 minutes = 120,000,000 seconds :smile: :cool:

Yahoo! News: [url]http://news.yahoo.com/largest-prime-number-discovered-165757465.html[/url]
[I]Business Insider[/I]: [url]http://www.businessinsider.com/scientists-just-found-a-new-prime-number--with-17-million-digits-2013-2[/url]

Oh, yahoo! :davieddy: "Largest Prime Number Discovered" :davieddy:

Meh.

[QUOTE=Batalov;327796]Oh, yahoo! :davieddy: "Largest Prime Number Discovered" :davieddy:[/QUOTE]

That could go in the "Misleading Headlines" thread ... "because there are none larger than this one."

Wow, it appears that the GIMPS super computer still works :smile: Good job everyone. That was a long prime drought...

I still keep a few machine's pipelines stuff with prime candidates.

I started GIMPS in 1999 with AT compatible Pentium MMX 233MHz machine. This machine is still in service today and has contributed over 30 P90 years and >140 Trial Factoring jobs over the last 14 years! It's primary mission now is a NAS for remote backups, but it manages to squeeze some TF into its dated pipeline :smile:.

[QUOTE=ewmayer;326529]I will say only that enough data have been leaked in this thread to narrow the exponent to within 1%, without any knowledge of GIMPS server traffic and such. But you have to learn how filter out the obvious noise, and thread sub-discussions which actually take things farther away from the correct direction.

I will explain after the official announcement.[/QUOTE]

Posted [url=http://mersenneforum.org/showthread.php?t=17742]in Math[/url].

NBC News: [url]http://www.nbcnews.com/id/50707223/ns/technology_and_science-science[/url]

Another "largest prime number" fail.

posted in the 'off topic' section of my favorite online game.... lets see if it light any discussion or anything

In the New Scientist report of the latest Mersenne prime find they were compared to diamonds. Some rough calculations show that $1,000,000 was spent on electricity to run GIMPS over the last four years. These are very precious diamonds indeed.