Anyone can join the great prime hunt. All it takes is a sufficiently powerful personal computer with idle time on its chips. The foundation's hope is that the prize will spur the technology of cooperative computing and encourage Internet users worldwide to join together in solving scientific problems involving massive computation. If you're really lucky, you'll come up with a winner. Chui, G. 1999.
New prime is discovered via Internet.
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