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One of the GIMPS computers that try to find the largest prime integers of the form
2^p - 1
i.e. the Mersenne primes has announced a new prime which will be the 43rd known Mersenne prime. The discovery submitted on 12/16 comes 10 months after the previous Mersenne prime. It seems that the lucky winner is a member of one of the large teams. Most likely, the number still has less than 10 million digits, and the winner therefore won't win one half of the $100,000 award.
The Reference Frame is the only blog in the world that also predicts that the winner is Curtis Cooper and his new greatest exponent is p = 30,402,457. You can try to search for this number on the whole internet and you won't find anything; nevertheless, in a few days, it is likely that this will be announced as the official new greatest prime integer after the verification process is finished. If you believe in your humble correspondent's miraculous intuition, you may want to make bets against your friends. ;-)
Actually I am so incredibly sure that you should bet thousands of dollars if someone is ready (and has the courage) to argue that I am mistaken and the exponent won't be 30,402,457. Trust me. Note that we predicted the previous Mersenne prime correctly, too.
The exponent may count the number of curves of a given genus in a particular elliptically fibered Calabi-Yau manifold. Or something else. |
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