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New Mersenne Prime discovered (probably)

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359 points sdsykes | 1 comments | 16 Oct 24 11:51 UTC | HN request time: 0.202s | source
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ziofill ◴[18 Oct 24 23:26 UTC] No.41884391[source]▶
I can swear something like 20+ years ago I found a new one too, but I didn’t realize the importance of it. I had just downloaded GIMPS and I was just messing around with it, and when I saw the message I thought “ok, cool!” and proceeded to turn it off.
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1. lifthrasiir ◴[19 Oct 24 00:41 UTC] No.41884713[source]▶
Do you have any slightest idea about the exponent, including how many digits in the exponent? I assume you had no account (otherwise there should have been some logs for that).