16 Sep
2008
16 Sep
'08
11:57 a.m.
Guy wrote: << Now it can be told. In order of discovery, M(p) with p = 43,112,609 or 37,156,667 is prime. UCLA discovered the first and win the $100,000 EFF prize for the first known prime of over 10m decimal digits. The second prime was discovered two weeks later, so they unfortunately miss out on the prize.
Actually, at the GIMPS website, they write that of the $100,000, $50,000 is going to the UCLA math dept., but $25,000 will be distributed to the main discoverers of the last 6 Mersenne primes. --Dan _____________________________________________________________________ "It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that certain je ne sais quoi." --Peter Schickele