New record for the largest prime number ever found (1 Viewer)

[Galileo]

2^74,207,281 - 1

over 22 million digits smashes previous record by over 5 million digits

 

[MaxThreshold]

2^74,207,281 - 1

over 22 million digits smashes previous record by over 5 million digits

Meh. I already knew it.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

omg

 

[bagger]

Infinity and one.

Boom.

 

[sho nuff]

Infinity and one.

Boom.

Aww Billy you so stupid... (In my best Rosie Perez voice)

 

[cstu]

Though the best mathematicians have chewed on the problem for hundreds of years, there just doesn’t seem to be any way to factor large numbers efficiently.

That fact makes primes vitally important to communications. Most modern computer cryptography works by using the prime factors of large numbers. The large number that was used to encrypt a file can be publicly known and available, because the encryption works so only the prime factors of that large number can be used to decrypt it again. Though finding those factors is technically only a matter of time, it’s a matter of so much time that we say it cannot be done. A modern super-computer could chew on a 256-bit factorization problem for longer than the current age of the universe, and still not get the answer.

 

[Ladsud]

Warp drive here?

 

[shady inc]

What's the point?

 

[SaintsInDome2006]

Not quite the Australian pole dancer post now is it?

 

[zamboni]

You load up, you party...

 

[rick6668]

You load up, you party...

No no no, we get dressed up, but we don't, we don't get high.

 

[FUBAR]

2^74,207,281 - 1

over 22 million digits smashes previous record by over 5 million digits

oh great, now everyone will know my password.

 

[MikeIke]

Sweet! That's the one I had in my office pool.

 

[SoBeDad]

What's the point?

Cryptography. I want his team on my side when it comes to computer security, etc. Glad that it's someone from the USA.

 

[Shutout]

If I can't eat it or f#%& it (or both in some cases), I DON'T CARE! so get off my lawn and leave me the hell alone!

 

[SacramentoBob]

If I can't eat it or f#%& it (or both in some cases), I DON'T CARE! so get off my lawn and leave me the hell alone!

The number 8 is ####able IMO.

 

[Brony]

If I can't eat it or f#%& it (or both in some cases), I DON'T CARE! so get off my lawn and leave me the hell alone!

The number 8 is ####able IMO.

i only hit numbers that are whole.

 

[grateful zed]

proof?