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New Mersenne Prime discovered (probably)

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Re: New Mersenne Prime discovered (probably)

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Post by jmclnx »

Nice and tentative congratulations.

I use to run Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS), but now all I have is laptops. It runs to hot on the Laptops I have :(

Will need to play with throttling some more.

Edit: found mprime (mprime-bin-24.14) is available in NetBSD pkgsrc. But this uses 32 bit linux emulation to execute, I have been trying to avoid it, but may try it.

Re: New Mersenne Prime discovered (probably)

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Post by ziofill »

I can swear something like 20+ years ago I found a new one too, but I didn’t realize the importance of it. I had just downloaded GIMPS and I was just messing around with it, and when I saw the message I thought “ok, cool!” and proceeded to turn it off.
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