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Discover why the number 6174 is so mysterious.

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September 2008
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prime number search

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The primes are the building blocks of our number system, but there's no general formula that will give you all of them. If you want them, you have to hunt them down one by one. Abigail Kirk investigates a method that does just that.

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The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search strikes again

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The GIMPS project finds a new Mersenne prime

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