so the press release happened?
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/news/2005-02-26/mersenne/
I can only guess Eric found the prime8.txt file on the gimps site and went from there.
Worst part is this:
"For those curious to see the new prime in its full 7,816,230 digits of glory, the results of the short Mathematica calculation required to generate its decimal digits are available by downloading the notebook mersenne42.nb. If you do not own Mathematica, you can download a free trial version to view this file."
Oh, and the wikipedia page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mersenne_prime is already updated. I was in the process on doing that when I noticed the water level rising... there's a broken pipe at my neighboors' but that's another story.
George Woltman wrote:
Tony Reix has verified the new Mersenne Prime! I'll have more details once the
press release and web site changes are ready.
Congratulations everyone!
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