Sunday, April 12, 2009

Digging For The 'Prime' Jewels Of Numbers

We usually discuss the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) in the Fundamentals class. This week it made it into the news because a journalist at NPR did a story about the project. Surprisingly, the story comes not when another large prime has been found, but when the journalist is encouraging others to join the search so that he can win a bet. This story was on 'NPR's most emailed stories.'

1 comment:

  1. Mike, thanks for passing this along. I finally got around to joining GIMPS today (ahhh ... procrastination is a wonderful thing).
    I won't quit my day job anytime soon, but if I win $, the coffee's on me!

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