{"id":464,"date":"2006-01-04T13:51:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-04T21:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=464"},"modified":"2006-01-04T13:51:00","modified_gmt":"2006-01-04T21:51:00","slug":"i-wonder-if-peter-montgomery-was-involved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=464","title":{"rendered":"I Wonder If Peter Montgomery Was Involved?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2006\/EDUCATION\/01\/04\/largest.prime.number.ap\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">According to CNN<\/a>, the largest Mersenne prime number found to date has been verified: 2<sup>30402457<\/sup>-1. It is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arsfoodcourt.com\/43.txt\" target=\"_blank\">9,152,052 million digits<\/a> long. It was found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mersenne.org\/prime.htm\" target=\"_blank\">in mid-December<\/a> after programming 700 computers years ago. The discovery is affiliated with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mersenne.org\/prime.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search<\/a>, a global contest using volunteers who run software that searches for the largest Mersenne prime.<\/p>\n<hr width=100 length=100 align=left><font size=\"-2\"><sup>*<\/sup> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.informatik.uni-trier.de\/~ley\/db\/indices\/a-tree\/m\/Montgomery:Peter_L=.html\" target=\"_blank\">Peter Montgomery<\/a> was a co-worker of mine at SDC whose hobby was <a href=\"http:\/\/ftp.cwi.nl\/herman\/NFSrecords\/RSA-155\" target=\"_blank\">factoring Mersenne Primes<\/a> using spare cycles on all of the BLACKER computers.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to CNN, the largest Mersenne prime number found to date has been verified: 230402457-1. It is 9,152,052 million digits long. It was found in mid-December after programming 700 computers years ago. The discovery is affiliated with the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search, a global contest using volunteers who run software that searches for the <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=464\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[175],"class_list":["post-464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lj-xfer","tag-geekiness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}