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UCLA Bags $100K Prize With Record-Breaking Prime Number

Winning discovery is 13 million digits long

By Rob Quinn, Newser Staff

Posted Sep 27, 2008 7:34 AM CDT

(Newser) – A team of UCLA mathematicians has won one of the math world's most coveted prizes, the Los Angeles Times reports. Their discovery of a 13-million-digit prime number—only the 46th such number ever found—scores them a $100,000 reward from the Electronic Frontier Foundation.... Read full story »

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UCLA Bags $100K Prize With Record-Breaking Prime Number

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