A new prime number has been discovered by Odd Magnar Strindmo from Melhus, Norway. It is 13 million digits long, so I won't display it here. It is a Mersenne prime number which means it can be calculated from the equation:
where n is a prime number.
The calculation required a lot of computing power (because the values for n are so large) and was aided by the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS). People can download software onto their personal computers to help with the calculations.
4 comments:
It's so good to have someone else around the math-less kidlit world who finds these things SO COOL!
Two scientist friends wondered aloud about the use of a new prime number. I explained that I needed a math-related post on my blog.
Dude I'm so glad this happened
Dude I'm so glad this happened
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