Largest Prime number found... via Prime95

EarthDog · Feb 6, 2013

Its not just for stress testing!

You know you're a geek if you felt all warm and fuzzy inside when you read that headline. If you got here by accident, here's the news: The biggest prime number yet has been discovered.

It is indeed massive, more than 17 million digits long. A text file of the entire number contains more than 22 megabytes of information.

http://lightyears.blogs.cnn.com/2013/02/06/largest-prime-number-yet-discovered/?hpt=hp_t2

fornoob · Feb 6, 2013

Prime for the win :comp:

And in the middle of the computation, he gets BSOD :facepalm:

Mandrake4565 · Feb 6, 2013

That would make a nice bank account statement.

bmwbaxter · Feb 6, 2013

lol, a 22 megabyte text file.

ssjwizard · Feb 6, 2013

Spiffy. I love this quote "In some ways, this is more of triumph of engineering than a triumph of mathematics"

EarthDog · Feb 6, 2013

bmwbaxter said:
lol, a 22 megabyte text file.

Yeah, and one of our servers that supports our ticketing system, has a 60GB text file (GB). :shock:

bmwbaxter · Feb 6, 2013

EarthDog said:
Yeah, and one of our servers that supports our ticketing system, has a 60GB text file (GB).

For realz bro?

Today has been a mind blowing day between this and data tapes.

eskimochaos · Feb 7, 2013

I'm sure it'll help the world some day. Oh wait, who cares? The stuff some people research.....

EarthDog · Feb 7, 2013

eskimochaos said:
I'm sure it'll help the world some day. Oh wait, who cares? The stuff some people research.....

glad to see you are part of a distributed platform!

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