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Title: The 32nd Mersenne Prime

Author: David Slowinski

Release Date: June 12, 2008 [EBook #69]

Language: English

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The 32nd Mersenne Prime

Found by

David Slowinski

In honor of Andrew Wiles' proof of the theorem known as "Fermat's
Last Theorem" stated 350 years ago--but unproven until this week
(February, 1993). [Fermat's thoughts on primes did not fare so
well, however. A prime number is an integer, which is evenly
integer divisible only by itself and 1]

Took 26.562767 minutes to calculate using
Maple 4.0 on a 512-MW 4 CPU Cray 2

17413590682008709732516359924590332789077936369050
70309746547355383827215620662576319147974364224616
10635130071368293660728159709054586772369049491142
93477202089620405024218873003497567737597556640892
78997985072561905731032163710847069465291689885445
30722380248547797941846968948877581472117196096521
07130138147783655536756743589920967534065512007429
20360681239094095454312630905781679734461358821352
20353524610720279709899877492086995072413691418815
60320836818547291247759862604646096021625722838827
38939891890104617219312155545932570137995324568811
85759966782043075143856381987226504677899075388614
68405916279603561174627301118740917331778061439712
23252614922823735925880038798335047860320508646260
66228106030298325285057443402167635765093406904801
96180095803280184094325223694430165424132888797257
65977078015107463420339422610156966680337109316418
54487286547810910997434248254117348626588963519580
71198202583404083067839892949256267872332894527439
20695451974122398122772326401174424039150015920937
87068453272796560830989864220128391868730035161189
79733328105184771759373887626138545323433504405579
68728147719056082218388701004398775588702287429465
30418575051799454296988244539725771476245577990875
68311840532564542404798382142088105611584840676822
70135804803925814582255917194501180083402087910902
01151741341480787794203353945535671236405974185773
41530533437375928644726832094617576825344