Difference between revisions of "M43"

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M43 is the short hand used to refer to the 43rd Mersenne prime $2^{30 402 457} - 1$ .

$2^{30 402 457} - 1$ was discovered to be prime on 2005-12-15 by Curtis Cooper and Steven Boone, using Prime95 written by George Woltman. At time of its discovery, it was the largest known prime.

This prime number was the ninth record prime found by the GIMPS project.

The new prime was independently verified:

by Tony Reix of Bull S.A. in Grenoble, France, in 5 days using 16 Itanium2 1.5 GHz CPUs of a Bull NovaScale 6160 HPC at Bull Grenoble Research Center, running the Glucas program;
by Jeff Gilchrist of Elytra Enterprises Inc. in Ottawa, Canada, in 14 days using 14 CPUs of a Compaq Alpha GS160 1.2 GHz CPU server at SHARCNET.

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-'''M43''' is the short hand used to refer to the 43rd [[Mersenne prime]] <math>2^{30.402.457}{-}1</math>.
+'''M43''' is the short hand used to refer to the 43rd [[Mersenne prime]] <math>2^{30\,402\,457}{-}1</math>.
-The number is [http://www.mersenneforum.org/txt/43.txt 9,152,052 decimal digits] long.
+The number is [http://www.mersenneforum.org/txt/43.txt 9 152 052 decimal digits] long.
 ==Discovery==
-<math>2^{30.402.457}{-}1</math> was discovered to be [[prime]] on 2005-12-15 by [[Curtis Cooper]] and [[Steven Boone]], using [[Prime95]] written by [[George Woltman]]. At time of its discovery, it was the largest known [[prime number]].
+<math>2^{30\,402\,457}{-}1</math> was discovered to be [[prime]] on 2005-12-15 by [[Curtis Cooper]] and [[Steven Boone]], using [[Prime95]] written by [[George Woltman]]. At time of its discovery, it was the largest known [[prime]].
 This prime number was the ninth record prime found by the [[GIMPS]] project.
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 ==External links==
 *[http://www.mersenne.org/various/30402457.htm GIMPS Discovers 43rd Mersenne Prime] (press release)
-[[Category:Mersenne primes]]
+[[Category:Mersenne prime]]