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PW:History - Prime-Wiki
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2009-04-12 : M47 = 242,643,801-1 is reported prime by a computer belonging to Odd Magnar Strindmo; but the discovery goes unnoticed until June 4.
2008-09-06 : A 10 million digit long Mersenne prime is found by Hans-Michael Elvenich. This is second Mersenne prime discovered out of order since 1988. If it had been found just 2 weeks earlier, it would have won the $100,000 EFF prize
2007-03-26 : Konstantin Agafonov finds that 19249 × 213,018,586 + 1 is prime. This 3,918,990-digit prime is the tenth success of Seventeen or Bust project.
2006-09-11 : Tony Reix finishes verification of this 44th Mersenne prime using 16 Itanium2 1.5 GHz in six days.
2006-09-04 : A Mersenne prime is found by Dr. Curtis Cooper and Dr. Steven Boone's CMSU team again and verification starts. The new Mersenne prime is 232,582,657-1
2005-12-24 : Tony Reix finishes verification using 16 Itanium2 1.5 GHz running Glucas.
2005-12-15 : One of the 700 computers at the Central Missouri State University run by Curtis Cooper and Steven Boone (the CMSU team) finds the 43th known Mersenne prime: 230,402,457 - 1.
2005-10-19 : Double check finds that 4847 × 23,321,063 + 1 is prime. This 999,744-digit prime is the ninth success of Seventeen or Bust project.
2005-10-19 : The Mersennewiki now features 100 articles.