MSU Student finds largest known Prime Number.

 

Is it me, is this the sort of worthless information? Don't get me wrong, I love math, I just can't see the use of this knowledge for something other than say, trivial pursuit. To each, his own.

 

 

EDIT: This is a yahoo link so I don't know for how long it will work.

Shafer, 26, helped find the number as a volunteer on an eight-year-old project called the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search.

 

Tens of thousands of people volunteered the use of their PCs in a worldwide project that harnessed the power of 211,000 computers

 

What a giant waste of time when they could all be logged on here

millions of kids world wide still unable to view porn online....

 

 

And I still don't have an avatar.

Shows ya the power of The Michigan State University.