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Este email peguei de outra lista. []'s Lu�s > THE WORLD'S LARGEST PRIME NUMBER > > 13,466,917 >2 - 1 > >The largest prime number yet discovered has just been revealed to the >world. > >George Woltman, Gimps founder The new number, expressed as >2^13,466,917-1, contains 4,053,946 digits and would take the best part >of three weeks to write out longhand. > >The prime number - a number that can only be divided by one and itself - >was >discovered by Michael Cameron, a 20-year-old Canadian participant in a >mass >computer project known as the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search >(Gimps). > >Mersenne primes are important for the theory of numbers and they may help >in developing unbreakable codes and message encryptions. > >The Gimps project spent 13,000 years of computer time to find the new >prime number. > >http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1693000/1693364.stm >
