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Prime Number Worth $100,000 Tuesday, September 30, 2008 - Ehud Rattner Home >> Headlines >> General Science   
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Mathematicians at UCLA have discovered a 13 million-digit prime number, a long-sought milestone that makes them eligible for a $100,000 prize. The group found the 46th known Mersenne prime last month on a network of 75 computers running Windows XP. The number was verified by a different computer system running a different algorithm. "We're delighted," said UCLA's Edson Smith, the leader of the effort. "Now we're looking for the next one, despite the odds." (source: newsroom.ucla.edu)
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