Huge new prime number discovered
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7640183.stm
Mathematicians in California could be in line for a $100,000 prize (£54,000) for
finding a new prime number which has 13 million digits. Prime numbers can be
divided only by themselves and one.
The prize was set up by the Electronic Frontier Foundation to promote
co-operative computing on the Internet.
The team from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) found the new
number by linking 75 computers and harnessing their unused power.
This enabled them to perform the enormous number of calculations needed to find
and verify a new prime

The search for new high prime number continues Thousands of people around the
world linked the powers of their personal computers in the search for a higher
'Mersenne' prime number - named after 17th-Century French mathematician Marin
Mersenne.
Mersenne primes are expressed as two to the power of P, minus one - with P being
itself a prime number.
Edson Smith, the leader of the winning UCLA team, told the Associated Press news
agency: 'We're delighted. Now we're looking for the next one, despite the odds.'
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