43rd Known Mersenne Prime Found!
Mersenne Prime,
230,402,457-1
This prime number is 9,152,052 digits long, and it was discovered using
GIMPS (the Great Internet Mersenne
Prime Search).
And so?
There is an
award of $100,000 from The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), for who
discover a prime number with at least 10,000,000 decimal digits, so you could
still find the next record prime number!]]>
