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Originally Posted by piforbreakfast
I know I'm responding to a really old thread, but I just found a couple articles about Curtis Cooper and I'm extremely impressed...and maybe a little jealous. Is it a fair assumption that his success in finding Mersenne primes is greatly aided by the amount of computing power he apparently has access to?
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Of course this is true, but luck plays a part also.
The last prime was found by Patrick Laroche on only his 4th try !
Read more here:
https://www.mersenne.org/primes/?press=M82589933