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New Largest Known Prime Number Revealed By Computer — After Four-Month Delay

Posted on 20 January 2016 by RobertLovesPi

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I find it hilarious that the computer which made this discovery actually kept it a secret for four whole months.

Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2073909-prime-number-with-22-million-digits-is-the-biggest-ever-found/

From that article: “[Curtis] Cooper’s computer actually found the prime on 17 September 2015, but a bug meant the software failed to send an email alert reporting the discovery, meaning it went unnoticed until some routine maintenance a few months later.”

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teachezwell on 28 January 2016 at 10:44 said:

Was it HAL 2?

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- RobertLovesPi on 28 January 2016 at 20:31 said:
  
  Maybe! I always liked the fact that the HAL 9000 computer and I share a birthday . . . although not in the same year.
  
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  - teachezwell on 29 January 2016 at 08:34 said:
    
    That’s a cool coincidence!
    
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