" Curt Noll and Laura Nickel, The 25th and 26th Mersenne Primes, Mathematics of Computation, vol | In his Theology of Arithmetic in the chapter On the Decad, Iamblichus writes: "Speusippus, the son of Plato's sister Potone, and head of the Academy before Xenocrates, compiled a polished little book from the Pythagorean writings which were particularly valued at any time, and especially from the writings of Philolaus; he entitled the book On Pythagorean Numbers |
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"On April 12th [2009], the 47th known Mersenne prime, 2 42,643,801 — 1, a 12,837,064 digit number was found by Odd Magnar Strindmo from Melhus, Norway! The record prime number's exponent is 216,091 | Lehmer, Recent Discoveries of Large Primes, Mathematics of Computation, vol |
[retrieved on 2012-09-17] The second manuscript of Codex nr.
M 43,112,609 was the first discovered prime number with more than 10 million decimal digits | Lehmer and McGrogan later confirmed the result |
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Parts of the manuscript have been published in [retrieved on 2012-09-23] | This prime is the second largest known prime number, a "mere" 141,125 digits smaller than the Mersenne prime found last August |
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AD 100, uses euthymetric and linear as alternative terms | Hence the first two Mersenne primes, 3 and 7, were known to and may even be said to have been discovered by them |
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But to their surprise, the newly discovered prime number falls between two previously known Mersenne primes | Strindmo also uses the alias Stig M |