- How do prizes for large prime numbers still exist when a proven method for verifying primality exists? Shouldn't super computers be able to brute force prime numbers using methods like the AKS Primality Test? https://www.eff.org/awards/coop 20 comments askscience
Linking pages
- Mersenne Prime Discovery - 2^57885161-1 is Prime! http://www.mersenne.org/various/57885161.htm 181 comments
- Primecoin: The Cryptocurrency Whose Mining is Actually Useful - Bitcoin Magazine - Bitcoin News, Articles and Expert Insights http://bitcoinmagazine.com/primecoin-the-cryptocurrency-whose-mining-is-actually-useful/ 110 comments
- This Huge New Prime Number Is a Very Big Deal | Live Science https://www.livescience.com/61364-really-big-prime-number.html#sthash.c6qqrjpr.sfju 8 comments
- Amateur Mathematician Discovers the Largest Known Prime Number, With More Than 41 Million Digits | Smithsonian https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/amateur-mathematician-discovers-the-largest-known-prime-number-with-more-than-41-million-digits-180985321/ 1 comment
- GitHub - ncw/iprime: All integer Mersenne prime checker https://github.com/ncw/iprime 0 comments
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