UCLA Researchers Find Largest Known Prime Number

[chopinbrain]

Large prime numbers do have one good use....

The oppurtunity to disprove the Reimann Hypothesis via example....

Though, most believe the hypothesis to be true, if one prime doesn't lie on the critical line, then.....

[ekultus]

omg it would stretch across the USA but only if you write them on paper, but wow still crazy to think about right? i mean thats why the reporter said it right. yea this news stuff is fun yay

[lexinaut]

I do think you might enjoy the following News Flash: The Largest Prime Number has escaped.  Authorities briefly had it in custody, but it shattered the jailhouse to smithereens and stalked off into the night. If you see this Mathematical Monster, you are hallucinating! Get help immediately!

[lexinaut]

Primes are fun as well as useful! In fact, they are well worth singing about!

[fonsidream]

Millennium Prize Problem

Grave Concerns On Riemann Hypothesis - Prime Numbers

watch?v=OmFq1z_BioM

Riemann zeta-function is based on false hypothesis to represent Prime numbers.

[omerkha]

If you like prime numbers then YOU NEED TO LOOK AT PRIME NUMBERS IN THE QURAN.... AMAZING MIRACLE just one of many. Also recomend miracle of 19 aswell.

[tantalides]

@omerkha mathematics and science are far more beautiful than religion could ever try to be.

[omerkha]

@tantalides mathematics and science we do not create but only study. God is creator of science and maths. Think about it we as humans cannot create anything of ourselfs but only take what is in nature and manipulate it.

[AjayBaskauskas]

they found another prime?! Optomus, alert the others! Transformers: robots in disguise

[deadlybug]

what the hell..?

there is an endless amount of prime numbers.

[Entertainmentwf]

LOL. Why is this a big deal? There are infinitely many primes. It's just another entry in a prime number table. It would be much better to find a pattern of primes or work on problems like the Goldbach's Conjecture for a pattern (that is discrete). Just seems useless to pluck off primes values when we know there are infinitely many. Since there is no such thing as the largest ever prime since there will be always one more larger one.

[gogtjgog]

thats alot, but it is nothing, i repeat nothing, compared to a googolplex, wich has 1 googol zeros, one googol is a with 100 zeros, so put one googol zeros on a line would probibly reach to the nearest star or possibly passed the nearest galaxy

[alkjash2]

rofl "merseen prime"

[OK2BCK]

I was being a smart ass, I don't even know the difference mate ;)

[OK2BCK]

@MedicoreProductions like converting porn movies from .avi to .mp4?

[JACKIEMON1]

wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo­oooooooooooow

[ceanner]

I might sound like an idiot now,

but why is it so hard to figure this out?

it doesnt seem that complex to me, just program the computer to eliminate all numbers divisible by anything.

[MrWowADD]

lol

[mwolfe38]

when you say "all numbers" I don't think you realize that the number line is infinite. The largest known prime numbers are really really big. The largest prime according to a site i just read is (2^43112609)-1

Now figure a computer can do 1 trillion

10^12 operations per second.. See where the problem is? Finding these huge prime numbers is much more complex than just checking every number for factors, it would take essentially forever for a number that big

[ijjicoins]

Even with simple optimizations such as using "sieve of eratosthenes," it would take a computer with a gargantuan processing power to 'figure this out.'

[bookwormadv]

its shown in gwr ( guiness world records) 2009. on the science section find it.

[MrWahoodles]

SOOOOOOOOOOOOO BIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIG

*ha thats what she said. no but really 13,000,000 digits wow

[iDraw3G]

Was Terence Tao involved in this research?

[1nglewattz1]

How was the winner decided if a group of computers work together.

[SlayerCasts]

@1nglewattz1

The winner was the person that linked the computers..use your head dumbf***ck

[ZiggyZaggy1369]

im theres a pattern/short cuz to this.. if i wasnt lazy i'd do it haha

[LspEric]

Holy SHRIMPS!!!

I'm 11, and I'm good at maths but this is0,0

WHWHWHIUGAMALsadasd!#@^%

[globalfuel11]

actually if they find that new prime number then all of the usernames and passwords in the world will b useless and anyone who knows how 2 use this number correctly can crack any password in existence. think about it the passwords are really just a series of 1's and 0's in a scrambled code. but if they know this super prime number they will b able 2 unveil the code with ease. its quite scary actually. and im not joking either

[spreacus]

Yes, large prime numbers are used in a numerous amount of encryptions.

[eddiechilvers]

The way primes are used for security is by taking two large primes and multiplying them together, the principal being that no one would be able to deduce the factors of this huge number because there is no simple formula. It doesn't effect anything if a new prime is found. Don't worry.

[soccom8341576]

but is it possible that a formula efficient enough to compute them in appropriate time?

[madichelp0]

you are so full of shit that it stinks though the computer screen : P

[Assyrianpianist]

Although it's not doing any good, but still interesting!

[angela1894]

How is this fucking useful for anything. Why are these brilliant people wasting their intelligence on useless knowledge.

[Zadius]

Their computers did all the work while they were eating, sleeping and doing other work. So, unless you think they were staring at the computer screen the whole time, it really doesn't waste anyone's time.

[angie4josh]

i have found the largest prime number.

it is between -0.1M and +0.9000(r)

(M)=.000001593920000>(r)+43000­00

how do i know this?

i pulled the answer out of Einsteins dead ass.

[marlo916]

i have discovered the smallest prime number... but its so small it escaped from my memory. what do i win?

[vkpillay]

It takes a engineer to decide the practicality of such numbers.mathematicians may be wasting time and money in finding number which might take a computer time and memory.100000dollar these days is nothing after deducting for expenditure of time and money spent on finding it,compared to footballers get thsse days for few days of work.

[genieieiop]

No point finding such a large prime number... Who in real life will ask you what is the largest prime number ever known?

[jahdallah]

If n is a positive integer, then (2^n)-1 is a prime number if, and only if, ... .

[PoWerExcesS]

Large prime numbers (as long as 10**130++) are used in internet cryptography. The bigger the prime the safer the cipher. So finding large primes can uprgade your security.

If you want for info on how this encryption method works google RSA.

This also is a feat motivated by mathematical interest and pride.

[saeedo2]

but nobody uses it that big, typical ciphers use 128-bit keys, more complicated ciphers use 256-bit and it becomes statistically impossible to deduce it, so why use a 13 million digit prime number?

[hunan131]

Cryptography is not interested in the largest primes, but in the fastest prime factorization algorithms. This number has absolutely no effect in the field, because we haven't even gotten to using smaller ones.

p.s. saeedo2 thumbs up

[engineerrb]

UCLA... first internet transmission(along with Stanford, sorry al gore) and now this

[matmicmj]

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[6x8q9yyefn]

omg i found the biggest prime number and it is lagging up my compue=ter

[6x8q9yyefn]

111,111,111,111,111,111,111,11­1,111,111,111,111,111,111,111,­111,111,111,1111,111,11,111,11­1,111,111,111,111,111,111,111,­111,111,111,111,111,111,111,11­1,1111,111,111,111,111,11,1111­,111,111,111,111,111,111,111,1­11,111,111,111,111,1111,111,11­1,111,111,111,111,111 and like 12 million times more

[Auriex]

Both

1,111,111,111,111,111,111

and

11,111,111,111,111,111,111,111

are prime.

You might be surprised with the number you listed.

[6x8q9yyefn]

example this is not a prime number:111,111,111,111,111,111­,111,111,111,111,111,111,111,1­11,111,111,111,111,111,111,111­,111,111,111,111,111,111,111,1­11,111,111,111,111,111,111,111­,111,111,111,111,111,111,111,1­11,111,111,111,111,111,111,111­,111,111,111,111,111,111,111,1­11,111,111,111,111,111,111,111­,111,111,111,111,111,111,111,1­11,111,111,111,111,111,111,111­,111,111,111,111,111,111,111,1­11,111,111,111,111,111,111,111­,111,111,111,111,111,111,111,1­11,111,111,111,111,111,111,111­,111,111,111,111,111,

[dkhorsan]

wsu0909, don't be such a sore loser for being...well...on the losing end.

[chordsequencer001]

100 million digits in a number p is way too much for today's computers to crunch. It just requires way too much time

[cubeCAT13]

Why is this so important? I'm not saying it isn't I am just wondering why.

[Naizarak]

me too

honestly, what is the point of this

[oldguncolt45]

a big f*cking waste of time and energy. and money.

[suckafly]

That's what you would think but when stuff like this is used to make your precious iphone work it gives you a different perspective on seemingly unimportant data.

[wsu0909]

fuck UCLA

losers

[suckafly]

eff u puto!

[sharinganclan213]

go ucla, u guys better accpet me.

[Derek0783]

Ummm...maybe has something to do with internet security...maybe key crytography...maybe buying stuff online securely with credit cards...maybe prime numbers save us billions of dollars a day by keeping certain purchases secure....

[Formica45]

What a massive wast of computing power.

[kart0ffele]

this is such a pointless competition...why??

[wheresthebody]

prime numbers are awesome!

[debunker1905]

Well some may think, but let's be honestly, what's the point of Soccer, Football, Baseball, Tennis, Basketball and so on?

Really, what's the point of them? If you find an answer to that, you'll be able to answer your own question.

By the way, it's even pointless to think that there are some people that go nuts for a sport team at the point of getting into confusions and fights, take a look at Hooliganism for example, it's already pointless to watch some people messing around with a ball...

[jamincortez]

sports is mass entertainment and is a business that succeeds. finding this prime number is kind of like a bounty hunter really. once its done its done and gone. and it doesnt serve a useful purpose or provide all that much entertainment.

[cakepoop]

one for california!