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On May 15, 2004, Josh Findley discovered the 41st known Mersenne Prime. It is 2^24,036,583-1. The number is nearly a million digits larger than the last find and is now the largest known prime number!

Find out more at http://mersenne.org/

I am involved in the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search and yet Bloody Hell this happened two weeks ago and somehow I missed it. My current stats are as follows.

LL P90*  Exponents  Fact.P90  Exponents  P90 CPU

CPU yrs  LL Tested  CPU yrs*  w/ Factor  hrs/day

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 49.868       17       2.033        1    2628.03