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Default 'No practical use' for 17-million digit prime number

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Curmudgeon writes
On Fri, 8 Feb 2013 18:11:11 -0000, "ARW"
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21382663

Why is it only "thought" to be the largest prime number ever identified?


It was just lying around, waiting to be discovered?
Feck me.


Didn't you know there were places in Dorset where they are just lying on
the beach ready to be picked up


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geoff