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Raymond Lewallen

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Raymond Lewallen is a .Net developer and Sql Server DBA
The Power of Computing aka Computing Power Posted: Jan 3, 2006 9:54 PM
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This is amazing.  It took over 700 computers working for years, but researchers (who coulda spent these kinda resources on something much more worthwhile, but that is another story) have identified the largest known prime number back on December 15th, 2005, which is over 9.1 million digits long.  That is absolutely amazing.  Also see the story on MSNBC.
"...on December 15, 2005 at 8:46:48 CST on the Communications Lab computer no. 7, the 43rd Mersenne prime and largest known prime number at the time, 2^30402457-1 with its 9,152,052 decimal digits, was discovered"

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