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  The largest currently known prime, 2^24036583 1, was found by Josh Findley through the GIMPS project on May 15, 2004. It is 7,235,733 digits long, almost one million digits more than the previous record holder. The Electronic Frontier Foundation is offering a $100,000 award to whomever is the first to find a prime number with at least ten million digits; it seems likely that this will be claimed within the next few years.  

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  Euclid proved in the 3rd century BC that there are an infinite number of prime numbers. A prime number can be divided only by itself and the number 1. Primes serve as the building blocks for all positive integers, and have applications in cryptography and other fields.

   Mersenne numbers are numbers that are one less than a power of two (2ⁿ 1). A Mersenne number that is also a prime number is called a Mersenne prime. These can be found and verified relatively quickly.

   Before 1952, 12 Mersenne primes were known; with the aid of computers, 29 more have been found. The seven largest have all been found by the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS), a distributed network of volunteers using their spare computer power to find the largest Mersenne primes.

  

   

   

  The only real failure .....is the failure to try.                               

                                Luck is a very rare thing....... Odds not so much. 

                                Odds never change .....but probability does. 

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