WOOHOO it finally happened

[mrryde]

Researchers discover largest prime number

KANSAS CITY, Missouri (AP) -- Researchers at a Missouri university have identified the largest known prime number, officials said Tuesday.

The team at Central Missouri State University, led by associate dean Steven Boone and mathematics professor Curtis Cooper, found it in mid-December after programming 700 computers years ago.

A prime number is a positive number divisible by only itself and 1 -- 2, 3, 5, 7 and so on.

The number that the team found is 9.1 million digits long. It is a Mersenne prime known as M30402457 -- that's 2 to the 30,402,457th power minus 1.

Mersenne primes are a special category expressed as 2 to the "p" power minus 1, in which "p" also is a prime number.

"We're super excited," said Boone, a chemistry professor. "We've been looking for such a number for a long time."

The discovery is affiliated with the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search, a global contest using volunteers who run software that searches for the largest Mersenne prime.

Dr. Boone is now going to spend some time researching what a vagina is.

[Camel Toad]

Dr. Boone is now going to spend some time researching what a vagina is.

but it will take years, as he has to program all of those computers to simultaneously work on that question for him while he hangs out playing games with leroy jenkins.

[Out_to_lunch]

Thanks a lot, now I have to find something else to live for.

[Tippster]

Soon they'll discover their big boy Hair. I hope.

[Camel Toad]

Soon they'll discover their big boy Hair. I hope.

you're kidding right.

everyone knows that as soon as the geek squad grows any hair...other than a child molester mustache...they are immediately taken away and killed. kind of a children of the corn type thing.