student finds world's largest known prime number

[Mark]

taken from here (http://msutoday.msu.edu/news/index.php3?article=03Dec2003-1)

"December 3, 2003 - An MSU graduate student has harnessed the power of the PC to discover the largest known prime number.

The number is 6,320,430 digits long, and took just more than two years to find using a distributed network of 60,000 volunteers' computers around the world."

[porkchop]

um... wtf is the point of that? those computers could be used for folding instead!

[thepieman]

Originally posted by porkchop
um... wtf is the point of that? those computers could be used for folding instead!


Yeah and they should all be folding under Thepieman !!!
:D :p :rolleyes:

[Tawcan]

Originally posted by thepieman
Yeah and they should all be folding under Thepieman !!!
:D :p :rolleyes:

No man Spankin_Barbaric_Beavers. :p :D

[thepieman]

Originally posted by Tawcan
No man Spankin_Barbaric_Beavers. :p :D


OK Im generous..its the holidays..1/2 to The Beavers and 1/2 to me

Pie :rotfl: :thumb: :nod: