------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- New Mersenne Prime! 2^1398269-1 is prime! ------------------------------------------ Thanks to everyone's hard work, GIMPS (Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search) has discovered the 35th known Mersenne Prime! Joel Armengaud made the discovery on November 13. Amazingly, he kept this secret while he double-checked the find on two other computers. On the 18th, he notified Richard Crandall, Chris Caldwell, and myself. I verified it on my machine on the 20th. Slowinski, who was out of town at the time, provided the independent verification on the 22nd. More information can be found at these three web sites: http://www.sjmercury.com/business/compute/prime1122.htm http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/justforfun/1398269.htm http://www.utm.edu/research/primes/notes/1398269.html As had been agreed upon before hand, credit for this new prime will go to Armengaud, Woltman, et. al. Datacomms Technologies web authoring and data security Paul Bradley, Paul@fatmans.demon.co.uk Paul@crypto.uk.eu.org, Paul@cryptography.uk.eu.org Http://www.cryptography.home.ml.org/ Email for PGP public key, ID: 5BBFAEB1 "Don`t forget to mount a scratch monkey"