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Ask Ars: Why spend time and money finding new prime numbers?

Ars Technica » Scientific Method 2013-02-14

Summary:

That new 17-million digit Mersenne prime number might matter. Someday.

Link:

http://feeds.arstechnica.com/~r/arstechnica/science/~3/YsFyB2dbBl0/

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research mathematics math scientific method mersenne prime prime number gimp primes

Authors:

Casey Johnston

Date tagged:

02/14/2013, 09:45

Date published:

02/14/2013, 08:30