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Re:New Mersenne Prime discovered (probably) by solardev on Saturday October 19, 2024 @01:47AM (#41885885)
I thought this was about GIMP at first, the GNU Image Manipulation Program. Like did they hide a prime number check into the brush strokes algorithm so users would become pseudorandom generators whenever they made art...? And you just happened to draw the right thing that also happened to be a prime?

But nope, it's just a similar acronym! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Internet_Mersenne_Prime_...

Re:New Mersenne Prime discovered (probably) by nbbaier on Saturday October 19, 2024 @04:42AM (#41886541)
I absolutely had the same thought progression