throwing up is more fun and satisfying than i remembered
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.
"[...] 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."
There's a lemon behind that rock!
