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It’s official: They’re prime
The numbers believed to be the 45th and 46th Mersenne primes have been proven to be prime. The 45th Mersenne prime is and the 46th is .Full text of these numbers is here and here. Of course what you a… more →
Casting Out Nines
Mersenne number
wrote 1 week ago: A Mersenne number is a number of the form , where is an integer. The Mersenne numbers consist of all … more →
Perfecte getallen
wrote 1 month ago: We weten dat er oneindig veel getallen bestaan. Als we deze als wiskundigen bestuderen merken we dat … more →
European mathematician 3 - Rene Descartes, Marin Mersenne, Pierre de Fermat
wrote 2 months ago: By the 17th century, Europe hast taken over from the Middle East as the world’s powerhouse of … more →
View The Largest Prime Number 17 Million Digits
wrote 3 months ago: Ever since Euclid proved there were an infinite number of prime numbers, mathematicians have been on … more →
Mo. researchers find world's largest prime number | Essentials
wrote 3 months ago: Mo. researchers find world’s largest prime number 1971 Mach 1 Mustang by Gamma ManLicense (acc … more →
Largest prime number yet identified: 2^(57,885,161) − 1
wrote 3 months ago: We talked about the search for large primes in December during our cryptography sessions. In the new … more →
Math Madness: New Largest Prime Number Is 17 Million Digits Long
wrote 3 months ago: It’s mathematicians’ idea of an arms race: the unending quest to find the largest prime … more →
Forget the Superbowl - here comes a giant Mersenne prime, all 17,425,170 digits of it!
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wrote 3 months ago: If you’re a sports fan, you might have watched the Superbowl or the Stanley Cup with avidity. … more →
A PRIME DISCOVERY
wrote 3 months ago: A professor at the University of Central Missouri has recently discovered what is to be the largest … more →
Mersenne primes and the Lucas-Lehmer test
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wrote 4 months ago: Mersenne numbers, named after Marin Mersenne, are numbers of the form . The first few Mersenne numbe … more →
One "long" multiplication problem ... revisited
wrote 6 months ago: Frank Nelson Cole Here’s a simple question for you – What are the factors of 147,573,952,589,676,412 … more →
Sympathy, spirits, and strings
wrote 1 year ago: [Cross posted from Modsquad.] This post brings me back to my earlier themes of materialism and panps … more →
Sympathy, spirits, and strings
wrote 1 year ago: This post brings me back to my earlier themes of materialism and panpsychism. But it largely develop … more →
New STL RNG / Mersenne Engine
wrote 1 year ago: #include <random> #include <iostream> int main() { std::random_device rd; std::mt19937 g … more →
One "long" multiplication problem
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wrote 1 year ago: Frank Nelson Cole Here’s a simple question for you – What are the factors of 147,573,952 … more →
Programming Praxis - Mersenne Primes
wrote 1 year ago: In today’s Programming Praxis exercise, our goal is to calculate the Mersenne prime exponents … more →
Famous Number Theorists Before 1900
wrote 2 years ago: (580 BC – 520 BC) Pythagoras (325 BC – 265 BC) Euclid (276 BC – 197 BC) Eratosthenes (200 – 284) … more →
Book Review: Prime Curios
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wrote 2 years ago: At the Virginia Council of Teachers of Mathematics (VCTM) conference in Richmond last Friday, I had … more →
Interesting Numbers- I. Largest Prime Numbers
wrote 2 years ago: What is a Prime Number? An integer, say , [ & ] is said to be a prime integer iff its only facto … more →
