M39 The Largest Known Prime Number - Great Internet

The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (gimps) Currently Offers A Us3,000 Research Discovery Award For Participants Who Download And Run Their Software And Whose Computer Discovers A Mersenne Prime Having Fewer Than 100 Million Digits. There Are Several Prizes Offered By The Electronic Frontier Foundation For Record Primes.7 Gimps Is Also Coordinating Its Long-range Search Efforts For Primes Of 100 Million Digits And Larger And Will Split The Electronic Frontier Foundations Us150,000 Prize With A Winning Participant. The Record Passed One Million Digits In 1999, Earning A Us50,000 Prize.8 In 2008 The Record Passed Ten Million Digits, Earning A Us100,000 Prize And A Cooperative Computing Award From The Electronic Frontier Foundation.7 Time Called It The 29th Top Invention Of 2008.9 Both The Us50,000 And The Us100,000 Prizes Were Won By Participation In Gimps.