{"id":4993,"date":"2001-12-06T11:05:00","date_gmt":"2001-12-06T11:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/2001\/12\/06\/"},"modified":"2001-12-06T11:05:00","modified_gmt":"2001-12-06T11:05:00","slug":"4993","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/2001\/12\/06\/4993\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Metro this morning, The largest prime number in the world has been discovered. it is <b>2<sup>13,466,9117<\/sup>-1<\/b>. It was discovered by a volunteer in an internet project called &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mersenne.org\/prime.htm\">Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search<\/a>&#8221; (GIMPS). When you can work for <a href=\"http:\/\/setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu\/\">SETI<\/a> or work to cure Cancer or Alzheimers with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.intel.com\/cure\/\">Intel<\/a>&#8230;but hey go work out a big number only divisble by itself and 1&#8230;&#8230;It took 13,000 computer hours to work this out&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Metro this morning, The largest prime number in the world has been discovered. it is 213,466,9117-1. It was discovered by a volunteer in an internet project called &#8220;Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search&#8221; (GIMPS). When you can work for SETI or work to cure Cancer or Alzheimers with Intel&#8230;but hey go work out a big number &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/2001\/12\/06\/4993\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4993"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}