{"id":1,"date":"2004-02-01T13:57:33","date_gmt":"2004-02-01T13:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/?p=1"},"modified":"2004-02-01T13:57:33","modified_gmt":"2004-02-01T13:57:33","slug":"gimps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/?p=1","title":{"rendered":"GIMPS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Great International Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) wants you to help in their search for Mersenne primes. These are prime numbers of the form <img src='\/maths\/latexrender\/pictures\/e7e07b07fe5015e4e5d0701a93ce3f17.gif' title='2^p-1' alt='2^p-1' align=absmiddle> (where&nbsp;<font face=\"times new roman, times, serif\" size=3><em>p<\/em><\/font> is itself a prime) and they can be found by anyone! The largest <img src='\/maths\/latexrender\/pictures\/f8b5de429b6064af32de919363093368.gif' title='2^{20,966,011}-1' alt='2^{20,966,011}-1' align=absmiddle> was found last November by a student. It has 6,320,430 decimal digits.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>You could win fame and fortune so go along to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mersenne.org\/prime.htm\">http:\/\/www.mersenne.org\/prime.htm<\/a>&nbsp;where it says:<\/p>\n<p><you a href=\"http:\/\/www.mersenne.org\/history.htm#found\" <A We?ve number. prime Mersenne new - Mathematics of all in finds coveted most the one discover could><\/p>\n<p dir=ltr style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\"><font size=1>&#8220;<em>You could discover one of the most coveted finds in all of Mathematics &#8211; a new Mersenne prime number. We&#8217;ve <\/em><\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mersenne.org\/history.htm#found\"><font size=1><em>found six<\/em><\/font><\/a><font size=1><em> already. Join in on this fun, yet serious research project. All you need is a personal computer, patience, and a lot of luck.<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p dir=ltr style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\"><font size=1><em>In addition to the joy of making a mathematical discovery, you <b>might<\/b> win some cash. The <\/em><\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eff.org\/\"><font size=1><em>Electronic Frontier Foundation<\/em><\/font><\/a><font size=1><em> is offering a <\/em><\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eff.org\/coop-awards\"><font size=1><em>$100,000 award<\/em><\/font><\/a><font size=1><em> to the first person or group to discover a ten million digit prime number! See how <\/em><\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mersenne.org\/prize.htm\"><font size=1><em>GIMPS will distribute this award<\/em><\/font><\/a><font size=1><em> if we are lucky enough to find a ten million digit prime.<\/em>&#8220;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><\/you><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Great International Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) wants you to help in their search for Mersenne primes. These are prime numbers of the form (where&nbsp;p is itself a prime) and they can be found by anyone! The largest was found last November by a student. It has 6,320,430 decimal digits. You could win fame and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}