Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Ottawa's Carleton U Student Helps Discover Largest Known Prime Number
The process took 16 days for a supercomputer to run the numbers; but, "working with an international team, Carleton University's Mr. [Jeff] Gilchrist has helped to discover the largest known prime number, at a whopping 12.9 million digits."
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