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To: Dan3 who wrote (65019)	12/6/2001 1:56:16 AM
From: milo_morai	Respond to of 275872

<font color=red>Number takes prime position[AMD CPU found it] By BBC News Online science editor Dr David Whitehouse The largest prime number yet discovered has just been revealed to the world. There are more primes out there George Woltman, Gimps founder The new number, expressed as 213,466,917-1, contains 4,053,946 digits and would take the best part of three weeks to write out longhand. news.bbc.co.uk You'll like this part Big effort Cameron used an 800 MHz AMD T-Bird PC, running part-time for 45 days to find the number. Prime numbers An integer greater than one is called a prime number if its only divisors are one and itself. The first prime numbers are 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, etc. For example, the number 10 is not prime because it is divisible by 2 and 5. A Mersenne prime is a prime of the form 2P-1. The first Mersenne primes are 3, 7, 31, 127, etc. "A friend informed me that if I was going to leave my computer on all the time I should make use of that wasted CPU time," he said. "I put Gimps on my PC because it does not interfere with my work on the computer. Finding the new prime was a wonderful surprise