https://www.lotterypost.com/thread/100178 Lottery Post Forum Topic: Win $100,000.00 math dudes en-us Lottery Post RSS Generator https://www.lotterypost.com/thread/100178/283306 https://www.lotterypost.com/thread/100178/283306 Sat, 13 Nov 2004 02:05:44 GMT WIN D Euclid proved in the 3rd century BC that there are an infinite number of prime numbers. A prime number can be divided only by itself and the number 1. Primes serve as the building blocks for all positive integers, and have applications in cryptography and other fields. Mersenne numbers are numbers that are one less than a power of two (2n 1). A Mersenne number that is also a prime number is called a Mersenne prime. These can be found and verified relatively quickly. Before 1952, 12 Mersenne prim... [ More ]

]]> WIN D https://www.lotterypost.com/thread/100178 https://www.lotterypost.com/thread/100178 Sat, 13 Nov 2004 01:55:15 GMT WIN D $ 100,000.00 RewardThe largest currently known prime, 224036583 1, was found by Josh Findley through the GIMPS project on May 15, 2004. It is 7,235,733 digits long, almost one million digits more than the previous record holder. The Electronic Frontier Foundation is offering a $100,000 award to whomever is the first to find a prime number with at least ten million digits; it seems likely that this will be claimed within the next few years. Go for it gang

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