World's largest prime discovered!

[Helmut Zeisel]

In article <60digm$2...@saltmine.radix.net>, m...@Radix.Net (Ted Frank) writes:
> In article <342a0270...@news.netspace.net.au>,
> Ian <_ia...@netspace.net.au> wrote:
> !><stra...@email.unc.edu> wrote:
> !>
> !>>NEW PRIME NUMBER: [(2 x 10^1098624572349841232118972341)-1] x 4
> !>
> !>umm... if you mutiply the [blah blah] by 4 ... it cant be a prime
> !>number :/
>
> It can if the other factor is large enough. See The Law of Large Numbers.
> I realize you're from Austria, where the U.S. might forbid the export of
> the critical number-crunching software to test this because of
> national security and cryptography reasons, so I can understand your mistake.
> --
.au is Australia; .at is Austria

Helmut Zeisel <....at>

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