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Amateur effort finds new largest prime number

2013-02-06 12:09:57| CNET News.com

A Missouri professor, one of a team of nearly 100,000 volunteers, has found a highly unusual 17-million digit number -- and brought a prime-hunting project closer to a $150,000 prize. [Read more]

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