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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: 0.337s | 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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rollinDyno ◴[19 Oct 24 03:22 UTC] No.41885406[source]▶
Hey at least you weren't one of those kids who ran into those online faucets that were giving bitcoins for free and didn't think too much about it.
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1. stavros ◴[19 Oct 24 11:52 UTC] No.41887306[source]▶
I remember the faucet giving 5 BTC to play with. I still have my wallet history from those days, with transactions of multiple millions (today) in BTC between wallets and friends.