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After it's discovery over 7 years ago, all Mersenne numbers below 2^82589933-1 have been double-checked by the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search and it is *officially* the 51st #MersennePrime! 🥳

https://mersenne.org

#Math #Mathematics #DistributedComputing #PrimeNumbers

Screenshot from mersenne.org's home page reading:

2026-Sep-04: It's official, M(82589933) is the 51st Mersenne Prime — Screenshot from mersenne.org's home page reading: 2026-Sep-04: It's official, M(82589933) is the 51st Mersenne Prime "M(82589933) was discovered in December 2018. It took more than seven and half years to re-check every smaller Mersenne number to make sure no errors were made during inital testing. This is a very important milestone for the GIMPS project. Many dedicated GIMPS volunteers participated in this effort. The next Mersenne milestone will require a significant effort, please consider joining this important double-checking task."

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