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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherNotion Press
ISBN-101649190123
ISBN-139781649190123
eBay Product ID (ePID)3069225786
Product Key Features
Number of Pages458 Pages
Publication NameM39 the Largest Known Prime Number
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2020
SubjectGeneral
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaEducation
AuthorGreat Internet
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight17.5 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
SynopsisThe Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) currently offers a US$3,000 research discovery award for participants who download and run their free software and whose computer discovers a new Mersenne prime having fewer than 100 million digits. There are several prizes offered by the Electronic Frontier Foundation for record primes.[7] GIMPS is also coordinating its long-range search efforts for primes of 100 million digits and larger and will split the Electronic Frontier Foundation's US$150,000 prize with a winning participant. The record passed one million digits in 1999, earning a US$50,000 prize.[8] In 2008 the record passed ten million digits, earning a US$100,000 prize and a Cooperative Computing Award from the Electronic Frontier Foundation.[7] Time called it the 29th top invention of 2008.[9] Both the US$50,000 and the US$100,000 prizes were won by participation in GIMPS. Additional prizes are being offered for the first prime number found with at least one hundred million digits and the first with at least one billion digits.