{"id":22147,"date":"2013-02-06T01:36:55","date_gmt":"2013-02-06T05:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mathgradblog.williams.edu\/?p=22147"},"modified":"2014-07-23T14:06:46","modified_gmt":"2014-07-23T19:06:46","slug":"48th-mersenne-prime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/2013\/02\/06\/48th-mersenne-prime\/","title":{"rendered":"48th Known Mersenne Prime Discovered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Details from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mersenne.org\/\">Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On January 25th, prolific GIMPS contributor Dr. Curtis Cooper discovered the 48th known Mersenne prime, 2<sup>57,885,161<\/sup>-1, a 17,425,170 digit number. This find shatters the previous record prime number of 12,978,189 digits, also a GIMPS prime, discovered over 4 years ago.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More information can be found in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/dn23138-new-17milliondigit-monster-is-largest-known-prime.html\">this article from New Scientist<\/a>. Those interested in the workings of the GIMPS algorithm should visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mersenne.org\/various\/math.php\">GIMPS Mathematics and Research Strategy<\/a> page.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Details from the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search: On January 25th, prolific GIMPS contributor Dr. Curtis Cooper discovered the 48th known Mersenne prime, 257,885,161-1, a 17,425,170 digit number. This find shatters the previous record prime number of 12,978,189 digits, also &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/2013\/02\/06\/48th-mersenne-prime\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" data-url=https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/2013\/02\/06\/48th-mersenne-prime\/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematics-online","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3gbww-5Ld","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25029,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22147\/revisions\/25029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}