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1952 using the U.S. [National Bureau of Standards]?' Western Automatic Computer (SWAC) at the [Institute for Numerical Analysis]? on the Los Angeles campus of the University of California, under the direction of [D.H. Lehmer]?, with a computer search program written and run by Prof. [R.M. Robinson]?. |
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1952 using the U.S. [National Bureau of Standards]? Western Automatic Computer (SWAC) at the [Institute for Numerical Analysis]? on the Los Angeles campus of the University of California, under the direction of [D.H. Lehmer]?, with a computer search program written and run by Prof. [R.M. Robinson]?. |
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As of March 2001, only 38 Mersenne primes were known; the largest known prime number (26972593-1) is a Mersenne prime. It was discovered by a distributed computing project on the Internet, known as the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search. See the project's home page at http://www.mersenne.org/prime.htm for much, much more information on the properties of Mersenne primes, biographical information about Marin Mersenne, and the current status of the search for new primes. |
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As of December 2001, only 39 Mersenne primes were known; the largest known prime number (213466917-1) is a Mersenne prime. Like several previous Meresnne primes, it was discovered by a distributed computing project on the Internet, known as the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search. See the project's home page at http://www.mersenne.org/prime.htm for much, much more information on the properties of Mersenne primes, biographical information about Marin Mersenne, and the current status of the search for new primes. |
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External resources: * http://www.utm.edu/research/primes/mersenne.shtml |
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