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Originally Published September 28, 2008; Last Updated and Republished October 22, 2009:

A group at UCLA has discovered another mersenne prime 2^43,112,609 − 1, a 13 million digit number!

Ironic Times asserts it was discovered in the latest bailout proposal.

Web:

• UPDATED 10/22/2009 EFF, Record 12-Million-Digit Prime Number Nets $100,000 Prize.

  Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS), a distributed computing prime number search project, collects prize for its 2008 discovery.

• UCLA group discovers humongous prime number