After it's discovery over 7 years ago, all Mersenne numbers below 2^82589933-1 have been double-checked by the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search and it is *officially* the 51st #MersennePrime! 🥳
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I’ve noticed there isn’t a day of the year dedicated to celebrating #MersennePrimes, so why not make today, May 7, the 127th day of the year, #MersennePrimeDay? (And May 6 on leap years.)
127 (2^7-1) is both a #MersennePrime and the exponent of a much larger Mersenne prime (2^127-1), and the largest Mersenne prime below 365 (the next one is 8191). It’s also the largest number you can store in a signed 8-bit integer value.
#Math #Mathematics #Maths #Primes #PrimeNumbers #Prime #PrimeDay
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Fun math fact: 19937 is prime even when you take the end digit and put it back at the start repeatedly. It's known as a circular prime:
19937 = prime
71993 = prime
37199 = prime
93719 = prime
99371 = primeIt's also one of the 52 known Mersenne prime p-values (2^p-1), as 2^19937-1 is prime, and this Mersenne prime is the most common used period length for the Mersenne Twister pseudorandom number generator.
#Math #Mathematics #PrimeNumbers #MersennePrime #CircularPrime
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I spent the past 30 minutes making this. :MOULE_Ha:
#MersennePrime #MersennePrimes #MathMeme #MathMemes #Math #Mathematics #Prime #PrimeNumbers #NerdHumour #NerdHumor
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Today marks the one-year anniversary of the current largest known prime number 2^136279841-1 being discovered! :MOULE_Dance:
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Some #MersennePrime news: on December 26, 2017, Jon Pace of the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search found that 2^77232917-1 was prime. It was the 50th *discovered* Mersenne prime, but on September 8th all double-check tests on Mersenne numbers below it have finished, officially confirming it to be the 50th Mersenne prime overall! :MOULE_Dance:
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CW: Geeking out about Mersenne Primes again (lots of digits)
A #MersennePrime #math pattern I love is the Catalan-Mersenne number conjecture (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Mersenne_number#Catalan–Mersenne_number_conjecture):
2^2-1 = 3 (prime)
2^3-1 = 7 (prime)
2^7-1 = 127 (prime)
2^127-1 = 170141183460469231731687303715884105727 (prime)Is 2^170141183460469231731687303715884105727-1 prime? It's so big it's unlikely, but you never know. We can only hope to find a factor of it: http://www.doublemersennes.org/mm127.php
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Though it was discovered over 9 years ago, all double-checks below 2⁷⁴²⁰⁷²⁸¹-1 have been verified and it is now *officially* the 49th Mersenne prime!
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2⁷⁴²⁰⁷²⁸¹-1 is the 49th *discovered* Mersenne prime, discovered by Curtis Cooper at the University of Central Missouri in early 2016. All numbers of the form 2ᵖ-1 (where p is prime) must be double-checked to ensure no primes are missed.
Good news: there's only 7 more double-check tests to go until 2⁷⁴²⁰⁷²⁸¹-1 is *officially* proven to be the 49th Mersenne prime *overall*!
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A fun #math project I found: can we say all 41,024,320 digits of the largest known prime number before a larger prime number is discovered?
You get assigned a 419-digit exerpt of the prime for you to say on video, then everyone's videos saying their digits are put in a row so everyone says the prime number in full.
(Note: Requires a YouTube channel)
#PrimeNumbers #MersennePrime #Prime #Primes #Maths #Mathematics
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Two more videos about the new largest discovered prime number from Numberphile!
"New Largest Known Prime with Matt Parker (Full Interview)": https://youtube.com/embed/oE8puWQ4taQ
"The Largest Known Prime Number - Numberphile Podcast": https://youtube.com/embed/E6iz4Vs5jcc
#MersennePrime #Math #Mathematics #GIMPS #Maths #Numberphile #PrimeNumbers
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Een stukje in 720 tekens (exclusief spaties) over het nieuwe #priemgetal van 41.024.320 cijfers dat deze week werd onthuld. @nrc_nl #GIMPS #mersenneprime
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2024/10/26/4102432041024320-a4870396 -
The math YouTube channel Numberphile interviewed Luke Durant who found the new largest known prime number in the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS)! Though most use their home computer's CPUs, Luke, a former NVIDIA employee, used GPUs instead.
Interview with Luke Durant: https://www.youtube.com/embed/aJHPDGj93-w
Interview with George Waltman, founder of GIMPS: https://www.youtube.com/embed/9ML2q0q53io
Highlights of both with Dr. James Grime: https://www.youtube.com/embed/Yp4ilFOtoeg
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Wake up Fedi!! New #MersennePrime and largest discovered prime number just dropped, and it’s over 41 million digits long!! 🥳🎉
GIMPS Press Release: https://www.mersenne.org/primes/?press=M136279841
Stand-Up Maths Video: https://youtube.com/embed/zsyGRDrDfbI
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I'm geeking out right now – a new #MersennePrime may have been discovered for the first time in six years!! :MOULE_Shock:
#Math #Mathematics #GIMPS #PrimeNumbers #Prime #PrimeNumber #Maths
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A new Mersenne prime has allegedly been discovered! While secondary verification is still in progress we're most likely to break an almost 6-year drought.
M136279841https://www.mersenneforum.org/node/1055976
https://www.mersenne.org/report_exponent/?exp_lo=136279841&full=1
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The largest #PrimeNumber (so far) was discovered five years ago today!
It’s a #MersennePrime discovered by a computer used by Patrick Laroche, an IT professional from Florida, who used the #prime-finding software Prime95 to stress-test his builds. It’s part of something called #GIMPS (Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search) that anyone can participate in and maybe discover the next largest Mersenne prime!
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