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From http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060104/ap_on_sc/largest_prime_number

"KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Researchers at a Missouri university have identified the
largest known prime number, officials said Tuesday.

"The team at Central Missouri State University, led by associate dean Steven
Boone and mathematics professor Curtis Cooper, found it in mid-December
after programming 700 computers years ago."

"We've spent the past 4-1/2 years just writing it down," Boone stated.
"We're not finished yet, but we've filled up the largest U-Haul truck and
trailer we could find, and will start touring with it until we finish the
rest."

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