PkmnQ⁧⁦ is cool⁩⁦

PkmnQ⁧⁦ is cool⁩⁦ 1 year ago (edited) • 3 views

Congratulations go to David Slowinski and Paul Gage. In early April, they discovered the 34th known Mersenne prime: M1257787. [...] Ironicly, at the time I received his email, my own Pentium-90 was 95% of the way through testing that exponent.

PkmnQ⁧⁦ is cool⁩⁦ 1 year ago (edited) • 7 views

I was looking at the previous prime recordd after the discovery of the new prime, and I just have to take note of this:

"[...] M4253 is considered never to have been the largest known prime number because Hurwitz in 1961 read his computer printout backwards and saw M4423 was prime seconds before seeing that M4253 was also prime."

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