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Some useful links

Large prime numbers

• The Largest known prime
• Known Mersenne Prime Digits and their English names
• Lists of large prime numbers

Definitions and theory

• General Mersenne prime information
• Definition of a Prime
• Definition of a Mersenne number
• Definition of a Mersenne prime
• Mersenne's conjecture
• Methods to find primes or to prove a large numbers primality
  
  
• How to find a new largest known prime - A EuroBSDcon 2013 tutorial

Searching for Mersenne primes

• Mersenne prime discovery history
• Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search
• GIMPS search status

EFF Cooperative Computing Awards

• Cooperative Computing Awards home page
• Rules of the Cooperative Computing Awards
• Rule 4F, a very importart part of the rules
• Recent News from the Cooperative Computing Awards
• Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) of the Cooperative Computing Awards

Source code

• Calc: Computed the decimal value of this prime
• Number: Computed the English name of this prime
• GIMPS code: May be used to prove that this number was prime

Other prime links

• Dr. Caldwell's The Prime Pages
• Caldwell's article on the discovery of 2^13466917-1
• Landon Curt Noll's prime number work
• The Amdahl 6 group
• Prime Curios! (a fun site!)
• Landon Curt Noll's table of curious numbers related to primes
• English names of large numbers - How high can you count?