KANSAS CITY, Missouri (AP) -- Researchers at a Missouri university have identified the largest known prime number, officials said Tuesday.
some total motherfu[b wrote:
[/b]cking utter juggernaught of the universe of the biggest DORKS]"We're super excited!," said Boone, a chemistry professor. "We've been looking for such a number for a long time!"
http://edition.cnn.com/2006/EDUCATION/01/04/largest.prime.number.ap/index.html
Can you imagine the metality that it must take to.. desire numbers? At one point in high school I learned to extract some enjoyment in solving algebraic equations.... but honestly.... Wahtever the OPPoSITE of ADD is- THESe guys got it.
oh and the number that the team found is 9.1 million digits long. It is a Mersenne prime known as M30402457 -- that's 2 to the 30,402,457th power minus 1.