German man finds new biggest prime number.... - GoFuckYourself.com

wedouglas · 03-03-2005, 08:54 PM

any math people out there? i personally find it amazing and love it.

A German eye specialist with a keen amateur interest in mathematics has discovered the world's largest prime number after a 50-day search using his personal computer.

Dr Martin Nowak, who has his own practice in the south German town of Michelfeld, stumbled upon the number last week, breaking the previous record for a prime number by half a million digits. Prime numbers are divisible only by themselves and 1. While the first prime numbers 2, 3, 5, and 7, are easy to identify, Dr Nowak's monster prime number is more than 7.8m digits long and is written as 2 to the 25,964,951st power minus 1.

The number belongs to a special class of rare prime numbers known as Mersenne primes, named after a 17th century French monk who first studied them 350 years ago. So far only 42 have been found. Yesterday Dr Nowak was reluctant to talk about his discovery, made using a special programme on his 2.4GHz Pentium 4 computer. "He's busy. He has a full afternoon seeing patients. He's doesn't want to comment," a spokeswoman at Dr Nowak's clinic said.

The eye surgeon is one of thousands of volunteers using software provided by the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (Gimps), a project to discover the holy grail of prime number research - a 10m-digit prime number. It took experts five days to work out that Dr Nowak's new number was indeed bigger than the previous biggest prime, discovered last May by an American. His number has 7,816,230 digits.

im not exactly sure how useful this is but kinda interesting, especially for a hobby. got it from www.torrentspy.com though its a torrent directory they always have strange/interesting news on their main page. good stuff

Spunky · 03-03-2005, 09:08 PM

I never was any good at math

SomeCreep · 03-03-2005, 09:13 PM

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Originally Posted by wedouglas

Dr Martin Nowak, who has his own practice in the south German town of Michelfeld, stumbled upon the number last week, breaking the previous record for a prime number by half a million digits. His number has 7,816,230 digits.

I bet he gets all the chicks

dasexi1 · 03-03-2005, 09:18 PM

ghat damn "Dr Nowak's monster prime number is more than 7.8m digits long"
i have enough trouble remember a damn phone number much less 7.8m digits

that offically makes him the Lord & Master of all Nerds

robfantasy · 03-03-2005, 09:20 PM

wow finally i can tell people the number of the exact length of my cock

Illicit · 03-03-2005, 09:23 PM

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Originally Posted by SomeCreep

I bet he gets all the chicks

bitches love prime numbers... especially those only divisable by themselves or 1

paxton · 03-03-2005, 09:26 PM

It is fascinating stuff. Amazing how a home computer can do these calculations to find advanced mathematical sollutions and properties.

In the past, only those special supercomputers had the power to do so...

wedouglas · 03-03-2005, 09:39 PM

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Originally Posted by ajpiii

bitches love prime numbers... especially those only divisable by themselves or 1

you obviously dont know what a prime number is...but thats okay

Spunky · 03-03-2005, 09:40 PM

What is a prime number?

Penthouse Tony · 03-03-2005, 09:44 PM

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Originally Posted by SomeCreep

I bet he gets all the chicks

Yeah 2 to the 3453 chicks

03-03-2005, 08:54 PM	#1
wedouglas So Fucking Banned Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Dearborn, MI Posts: 5,921	German man finds new biggest prime number.... any math people out there? i personally find it amazing and love it. A German eye specialist with a keen amateur interest in mathematics has discovered the world's largest prime number after a 50-day search using his personal computer. Dr Martin Nowak, who has his own practice in the south German town of Michelfeld, stumbled upon the number last week, breaking the previous record for a prime number by half a million digits. Prime numbers are divisible only by themselves and 1. While the first prime numbers 2, 3, 5, and 7, are easy to identify, Dr Nowak's monster prime number is more than 7.8m digits long and is written as 2 to the 25,964,951st power minus 1. The number belongs to a special class of rare prime numbers known as Mersenne primes, named after a 17th century French monk who first studied them 350 years ago. So far only 42 have been found. Yesterday Dr Nowak was reluctant to talk about his discovery, made using a special programme on his 2.4GHz Pentium 4 computer. "He's busy. He has a full afternoon seeing patients. He's doesn't want to comment," a spokeswoman at Dr Nowak's clinic said. The eye surgeon is one of thousands of volunteers using software provided by the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (Gimps), a project to discover the holy grail of prime number research - a 10m-digit prime number. It took experts five days to work out that Dr Nowak's new number was indeed bigger than the previous biggest prime, discovered last May by an American. His number has 7,816,230 digits. im not exactly sure how useful this is but kinda interesting, especially for a hobby. got it from www.torrentspy.com though its a torrent directory they always have strange/interesting news on their main page. good stuff

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dasexi1 Confirmed User Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: if i told you, then THEY'D know Posts: 934	ghat damn "Dr Nowak's monster prime number is more than 7.8m digits long" i have enough trouble remember a damn phone number much less 7.8m digits that offically makes him the Lord & Master of all Nerds