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This prime's information:

field (help) value Description: 242643801-1 Verification status (*): External Official Comment: Mersenne 46?? Unofficial Comments: This prime has 1 user comment below. Proof-code(s): (*): G12 : Strindmo, GIMPS, Prime95 Decimal Digits: 12837064   (log10 is 12837063.2301257) Rank (*): 2 (digit rank is 1) Entrance Rank (*): 2 Currently on list? (*): short Submitted: 6/13/2009 12:36:33 CDT Last modified: 6/13/2009 12:48:13 CDT Database id: 88847 Status Flags: Verify Score (*): 54.4506 (normalized score 1019354.8979)

Archival tags:

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Mersenne (archivable *)

Prime on list: yes, rank 2
Subcategory: "Mersenne"
(archival tag id 210459, tag last modified 2009-06-13 12:41:00)

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Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search by Woltman & Kurowski writes (13 Jun 2009): 

On April 12th, the 47th known Mersenne prime, 242,643,801-1, a 12,837,064 digit number was found by Odd Magnar Strindmo from Melhus, Norway! This prime is the second largest known prime number, a "mere" 141,125 digits smaller than the Mersenne prime found last August. Odd is an IT professional whose computers have been working with GIMPS since 1996 testing over 1400 candidates. This calculation took 29 days on a 3.0 GHz Intel Core2 processor. The prime was independently verified June 12th by Tony Reix of Bull SAS in Grenoble, France using the Glucas program running on Bull NovaScale HPC servers, one featuring Itanium2 CPUs and another featuring Nehalem EX CPUs. Perfectly Scientific, Dr. Crandall's company which developed the FFT algorithm used by GIMPS, makes souvenir posters you can order. You'll need a good magnifying glass to read all 12.8 million digits!

Verification data:

The Top 5000 Primes is a list for proven primes only. In order to maintain the integrity of this list, we seek to verify the primality of all submissions.  We are currently unable to check all proofs (ECPP, KP, ...), but we will at least trial divide and PRP check every entry before it is included in the list.

field value prime_id 88847 person_id 9 machine RedHat P4 P4 what trial_divided notes Command: /home/caldwell/client/TrialDiv/TrialDiv -q 1 2 42643801 -1 2>&1 [Ellapsed time: 12.306 seconds] modified 2009-07-10 15:55:50 created 2009-06-13 12:48:01 id 107060

field value prime_id 88847 person_id 9 machine External what prime notes The prime was independently verified June 12th by Tony Reix of Bull SAS in Grenoble, France using the Glucas program running on Bull NovaScale HPC servers, one featuring Itanium2 CPUs and another featuring Nehalem EX CPUs. modified 2009-06-13 13:15:55 created 2009-06-13 12:38:02 id 107059