University of Central Missouri Math Whiz!
 

UCM used to be called CMSU (Central Missouri State University) in Warrensburg. When I was in school, we called it "Call Me Stupid University."

Anyway, math whiz at UCM discovers the largest known prime number, 17 million digits long. Wow!

Story is here in the Manchester, England Guardian newspaper:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/al...million-digits

Writing a program to compute prime numbers efficiently is CS 101. You just need the computer horsepower to crunch the numbers and sit back and wait.

First in with, "Can he play QB?"

...and still a virgin.

please tell me he was a janitor and solved the problem on a board in the hallway.

Here's a Yahoo Story about it:
http://news.yahoo.com/largest-prime-...165757465.html

You would be correct if you hadn't included the word "efficiently" in your statement. The algorithm they teach you in CS 101 works just fine for numbers as big as this one. That is, it works just fine if you have billions of years to do the computations.

That's why this is getting attention. He used a different technique that's far more efficient (and complex) than just dividing every potential prime number candidate by every other number smaller than itself.

so....gblowfish....you're a jackass too?

Score one for the Alma Mater!

Nope. But many of my pals are Jackasses or Jennies.

In my youth I had a lot of fun in Warrensburg, especially when I was in High School. Great place to spend a Friday and Saturday night. Lots of pretty girls.

This the guy?
http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Co...otoblog600.jpg

Can he throw a 3 yard dump off to DMC?

Damn it really is time to bring out the gimp......

Yeah that!