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Stories about: Mersenne Prime number

XP Plays a Role in the Discovery of 13 Million Digit Prime Number Almost two years after the release of Windows Vista, it is Windows XP that gets to play a role in the discovery of the largest prime number yet. At no less than 12,978,189 digits, the UCLA Mersenne Prime number is 243112609 - 1, and has been “christened” M46.Mersenne Prime researcher Landon Curt Noll has ... 29 September 2008 13:13 GMT