M44 might be, no, *IS* here - Page 14

Andi47 · 2006-09-12, 04:30

http://www.mersenne.org/primenet/status.shtml still says "Prime, UNVERIFIED ... 1".
Shouldn't it say "Prime, VERIFIED ... 1" now?

Old man PrimeNet · 2006-09-12, 04:54

The PrimeNet status page will show the 44th known Mersenne prime as verified this next hour -- after resetting the IIS service to update the home page I was distracted by my wife jumping and hooting at the Chargers/Raiders game and forgot to flip the verified bit!

GIMPS' repeated success says volumes about its international volunteers and the power of cooperative computing. Another great job well done!

Jwb52z · 2006-09-12, 05:28

The history page about all the Mersenne primes still doesn't list M44.

jinydu · 2006-09-12, 05:49

It seems we have a new milestone already; all exponents below 14M have been doublechecked:

http://www.mersenne.org/status.htm

And Curtis Cooper has already discovered yet another prime:

http://primes.utm.edu/bios/page.php?id=402

Andi47 · 2006-09-12, 07:00

Quote:

Originally Posted by Old man PrimeNet

The PrimeNet status page will show the 44th known Mersenne prime as verified this next hour -- after resetting the IIS service to update the home page I was distracted by my wife jumping and hooting at the Chargers/Raiders game and forgot to flip the verified bit!

GIMPS' repeated success says volumes about its international volunteers and the power of cooperative computing. Another great job well done!

Maybe a couple of banners on the PrimeNet Status page should be updated too - they are waaaaaaayyyyyyy outdated!

eu-Robert · 2006-09-12, 13:42

Congrats to one and all in/with the project, you all did a really terrific job!! *gratefully appends 1F12C01 to M-list*

I agree, no need to rustle up the media, let sleeping dogs lie I say. It's not like there's a real chance that we're in for a long dry spell in primes, so we don't need extra users numbercrunching for GIMPS, right? Let's just continue LL-ing till we find that 40 million+ exponent, so what if progress will slow down over the years?

But -- just in case someone does want to tell the media, then just remember they generally still think decimal -- you know, decimal expansions of Mersenne primes, >10 million digits, $100,000 , etc...
So ... maybe we should emphasize on the fact that "George, Scott et al are discovering rediculously large numbers that become increasingly hard to find as the numbers grow, oh and by the way, this is our TENTH discovery. Do you have that? One-oh."

Actually, it's also a big success story for MS Win NT ( hello you people at MS, can someone PLEASE wake up and fix George's file locking glitch ;) ), both last record primes were discovered by the few systems in the CMSU team effort that still ran that OS.

@ixfd64: Good start on wikinews, more, please.

By the way, Eric W. Weisstein has a nice writeup about M[44] up on Mathworld.

I've finally

begun updating the Dutch GIMPS page: http://mersenne.dse.nl/

*Hi everybody!*

StarQwest · 2006-09-12, 16:57

Here it is, at last, on the cleared exponents report:

32582657 68 P 0000000000000000 04-Sep-06 17:33 curtisc wd-102--04l

Jeff Gilchrist · 2006-09-12, 17:49

Quote:

Originally Posted by Prime95

Thanks to Tony for the quick verification!

Yes that was fast. But wait, the second verification (now 70% complete) hasn't finished yet. At this point we are only "almost entirely sure" the exponent is prime.

Great work everyone. So the question is would you rather discover 2 largest prime numbers or just 1 largest prime that happens to be the first at 10 million digits?

victor · 2006-09-12, 18:55

«Great work everyone. So the question is would you rather discover 2 largest prime numbers or just 1 largest prime that happens to be the first at 10 million digits?»
The first 10M, definately

lycorn · 2006-09-12, 19:07

Quote:

Originally Posted by eu-Robert

so we don't need extra users numbercrunching for GIMPS, right?

I don´t agree. We do need more volunteers. There is no such thing as "too many people" cooperating in projects of this kind (unless the server couldn´t handle the load, which is not the case).
Therefore, we should go "tell it on the mountain"...

Congrats everybody!!!

Primeinator · 2006-09-12, 21:24

I have to agree with Lycorn, the more people that help with a project of this kind, the better. Even though the more people there means you will likely have less of a chance at the 10M digit prize.

2006-09-12, 04:54	#145
Old man PrimeNet Jan 2003 Altitude>12,500 MSL 101 Posts	Congratulations GIMPS! The PrimeNet status page will show the 44th known Mersenne prime as verified this next hour -- after resetting the IIS service to update the home page I was distracted by my wife jumping and hooting at the Chargers/Raiders game and forgot to flip the verified bit! GIMPS' repeated success says volumes about its international volunteers and the power of cooperative computing. Another great job well done!

2006-09-12, 16:57	#150
StarQwest Jan 2006 Tampa, Florida 11000010₂ Posts	Here it is, at last, on the cleared exponents report: 32582657 68 P 0000000000000000 04-Sep-06 17:33 curtisc wd-102--04l Last fiddled with by StarQwest on 2006-09-12 at 16:58

2006-09-12, 04:30	#144
Andi47 Oct 2004 Austria 9B2₁₆ Posts	http://www.mersenne.org/primenet/status.shtml still says "Prime, UNVERIFIED ... 1". Shouldn't it say "Prime, VERIFIED ... 1" now?

2006-09-12, 05:28	#146
Jwb52z Sep 2002 17·47 Posts	The history page about all the Mersenne primes still doesn't list M44.

2006-09-12, 05:49	#147
jinydu Dec 2003 Hopefully Near M48 2×3×293 Posts	It seems we have a new milestone already; all exponents below 14M have been doublechecked: http://www.mersenne.org/status.htm And Curtis Cooper has already discovered yet another prime: http://primes.utm.edu/bios/page.php?id=402

2006-09-12, 13:42	#149
eu-Robert Dec 2003 Eindhoven 2·11 Posts	Congrats to one and all in/with the project, you all did a really terrific job!! gratefully appends 1F12C01 to M-list I agree, no need to rustle up the media, let sleeping dogs lie I say. It's not like there's a real chance that we're in for a long dry spell in primes, so we don't need extra users numbercrunching for GIMPS, right? Let's just continue LL-ing till we find that 40 million+ exponent, so what if progress will slow down over the years? But -- just in case someone does want to tell the media, then just remember they generally still think decimal -- you know, decimal expansions of Mersenne primes, >10 million digits, $100,000 , etc... So ... maybe we should emphasize on the fact that "George, Scott et al are discovering rediculously large numbers that become increasingly hard to find as the numbers grow, oh and by the way, this is our TENTH discovery. Do you have that? One-oh." Actually, it's also a big success story for MS Win NT ( hello you people at MS, can someone PLEASE wake up and fix George's file locking glitch ;) ), both last record primes were discovered by the few systems in the CMSU team effort that still ran that OS. @ixfd64: Good start on wikinews, more, please. By the way, Eric W. Weisstein has a nice writeup about M[44] up on Mathworld. I've finally begun updating the Dutch GIMPS page: http://mersenne.dse.nl/ Hi everybody!

2006-09-12, 18:55	#152
victor Oct 2005 Fribourg, Switzerlan 11111100₂ Posts	«Great work everyone. So the question is would you rather discover 2 largest prime numbers or just 1 largest prime that happens to be the first at 10 million digits?» The first 10M, definately

2006-09-12, 21:24	#154
Primeinator "Kyle" Feb 2005 Somewhere near M52.. 3×5×61 Posts	I have to agree with Lycorn, the more people that help with a project of this kind, the better. Even though the more people there means you will likely have less of a chance at the 10M digit prize.