New Mersenne Prime discovered (probably)

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.

> 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.

GIMPS would run for weeks or months first. You wouldn’t have seen anything if you had just downloaded it and were messing around. As I recall, you had to do some work to get it running at boot automatically.