, a mathematician and computer science professor at the , has discovered the largest known to date on January 25. Several people verified the discovery using different hardware and software by the beginning of February and it was announced on Tuesday. Cooper found the prime as a participant in the distributed computing project known as the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search , or GIMPS. Cooper runs the GIMPS client, called , on an estimated 1,000 computers at the university.
, a mathematician and computer science professor at the , has discovered the largest known to date on January 25. Several people verified the discovery using different hardware and software by the beginning of February and it was announced on Tuesday. Cooper found the prime as a participant in the project known as the , or GIMPS. Cooper runs the GIMPS client, called , on an estimated 1,000 computers at the university.
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Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search