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New Mersenne Prime discovered (probably)

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359 points sdsykes | 2 comments | 16 Oct 24 11:51 UTC | HN request time: 0s | 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. solardev ◴[19 Oct 24 05:47 UTC] No.41885885[source]▶
I thought this was about GIMP at first, the GNU Image Manipulation Program. Like did they hide a prime number check into the brush strokes algorithm so users would become pseudorandom generators whenever they made art...? And you just happened to draw the right thing that also happened to be a prime?

But nope, it's just a similar acronym! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Internet_Mersenne_Prime_...

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2. nbbaier ◴[19 Oct 24 08:42 UTC] No.41886541[source]▶
I absolutely had the same thought progression