Big Number Found at UCLA
Posted on September 29, 2008
Filed Under News, The Daily Prereq, Video | By Jessica Dye
And no, it doesn’t have anything to do with Rick Neuheisel’s helicopter budget (zing!?). According to the AP, researchers at UCLA (with the help of 75 computers) have discovered the largest prime number ever, which clocks in at an impressive 13 million digits. They’ll receive $100,000 from the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Cooperative Computing Awards fund, which promised the prize to anyone who discovered a prime number (divisible only by 1 and the number itself) larger than 10 million digits. Think it’s time to call off your own big-prime-number hunt? There’s still a $250,000 prize up for grabs for anyone to come up with a prime number larger than 1 billion digits. Keep computin’!
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