The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is giving out awards to whom ever find the largest prime number know to humankind, the award is call “EFF Cooperative Computing Awards”. Prizes consist of the following;
- $50,000 to the first individual or group who discovers a prime number with at least 1,000,000 decimal digits (awarded Apr. 6, 2000)
- $100,000 to the first individual or group who discovers a prime number with at least 10,000,000 decimal digits
- $150,000 to the first individual or group who discovers a prime number with at least 100,000,000 decimal digits
- $250,000 to the first individual or group who discovers a prime number with at least 1,000,000,000 decimal digits
This look like a promising award for me to advance my research into more advance mathematics, Interestingly that if I program a software that run as screen saver and help me process the prime numbers. I’ll keep everyone posted on this topic.
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