The 45th and 46th Mersenne primes were found using the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search. Interestingly, the 45th one was larger than the 46th.
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ichatfilipina
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Thu Apr 16, 2009 3:48 am
As promised, GIMPS will give $50,000 of the EFF award to the UCLA Mathematics Department for discovering the first 10 million digit prime. $25,000 will go to charity, and most of the remainder will go to discoverers of the previous six Mersenne primes.
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