Michael Shafer discovered the 40th known Mersenne prime, 2^20996011-1. Congratulations Michael. This prime is over 6.3 million digits, beating the previous world record prime by over 2 million digits.
Scott has handed out the press release and already the first online article of the discovery has appeared:
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994438
You can also read Scott's press release http://www.mersenne.org/20996011.htm
I'll try to add more links to the http://mersenne.org web page as they become available.
Well done everyone, George
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