On May 15, 2004, Josh Findley discovered the 41st known Mersenne Prime. It is 224,036,583-1. 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
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