http://www.metafilter.com/tags/monsterfarms Posts tagged with 'monsterfarms' at MetaFilter. Tue, 02 Dec 2003 17:07:24 -0800 Tue, 02 Dec 2003 17:07:24 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/29972/its%2Da%2DDell%2Ddude <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103_2-5112827.html">A Dell with a 2GHz Pentium processor</a> owned by a Michigan State University student has found the world's largest prime number -- containing <a href="http://mathworld.wolfram.com/news/2003-12-02/mersenne/mersenne40.txt">more than 6.3 million digits</a>. The student was loaning his extra computer cycles to <a href="http://www.mersenne.org/">the GIMPS project</a> [sort of like <a href="http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/">SETI</a> and other <a href="http://ws9.jobnegotiator.com/html/flinks.html">monster farms</a>]. Here's <a href="http://www.egr.msu.edu/~shafermi/primes/">a web page he created about palindromic prime numbers</a> before he became Mr. Biggest Prime Number Guy. tag:metafilter.com,2003:site.29972 Tue, 02 Dec 2003 17:07:24 -0800 gimpsproject monsterfarms primenumbers jessamyn