From failed candidate to chief scientist

Chapter 174 New Mersenne primes are discovered again
"That is also a huge step forward on this issue!"

Jiang Fanjun clenched his fists excitedly.

"Don't worry, Lin Mo, I will definitely do this algorithm well. When the time comes, we will use Mersenne prime numbers to prove the correctness of this algorithm. This is another achievement that shocks the world, hahaha!"

Lin Mo was also infected by Jiang Fanjun's excitement, and a smile appeared on his face.

"I'll do it now!"

The more Jiang Fanjun talked, the more excited he became. He walked directly to the computer and started typing on the keyboard.

"Hold it, Teacher Jiang. If you drink, you'd better go to bed early and wait until tomorrow."

Jiang Fanjun waved his hand, signaling Lin Mo to leave him alone, and his eyes were already focused on the computer.

Seeing this, Lin Mo shrugged helplessly, turned around and walked out.

……

the other side.

The University of Central Missouri is thousands of miles away.

Curtis Cooper kept refreshing his mailbox, looking forward to Mo Lin's reply, but he was destined to be disappointed, because neither Jiang Fanjun nor Lin Mo noticed the email he sent.

The waiting was anxious. Curtis Cooper, who had not received a reply for a long time, stared at the computer irritably. He decided to do something else to divert his attention, which might make him feel better.

But no matter what he did, his heart was always worried about Lin Mo's reply, which made his heart unable to calm down.

Curtis Cooper was bored and clicked on GIMPS out of habit.

Then, the next moment, his eyes widened.

I saw that under the previous 49th Mersenne prime number, a new piece of information that was not available before appeared again.

"The 50st Mersenne prime number, M6*******, was discovered by mo lin, from the Mathematics Research Center of Dongshan University in Xia State."

Curtis Cooper wondered if he was dazzled. He saw the previous message as two pieces. He rubbed his eyes and read it again carefully.

"The 49th Mersenne prime, M6*******,..."

"The 50th Mersenne prime, M6*******,..."

This is indeed two pieces of information, and there is nothing wrong with it. So, is this another new Mersenne prime number discovered?
How can this be?How long had it been since he discovered the last Mersenne prime number?It’s less than 12 hours, right?
No, 4 hours, 39 minutes and 52 seconds to be exact.

Curtis Cooper carefully confirmed the time of discovery.

How can this be?

Could it be that he was hallucinating?Because I paid too much attention to this matter, I had hallucinations...

Curtis Cooper shook his head and did not dare to look at the monitor in front of him.

He grabbed the cell phone at hand and dialed.

"Oh, Kelvin, I feel like there is something wrong with our system. I just saw a new piece of data on GIMPS and discovered a new Mersenne prime number. But how is this possible? This is just one step away from the discovery of the last Mersenne prime number. Less than 5 hours have passed, and it’s from the same person. This is impossible. I think there must be a problem with our system, duplicate displays, or something else. I think you need to fix it. The system conducted a comprehensive inspection and the bug was fixed."

Curtis-Cooper called another GIMPS manager, who was responsible for the maintenance of the GIMPS main system.

They are all volunteers who participated in the construction and maintenance of GIMPS out of their love for the study of Mersenne prime numbers.

After hearing Curtis Cooper's call, the other party hurriedly put down his manual work and checked GIMPS.

A moment later, Curtis Cooper's phone rang.

"Hey, Kelvin, how's it going? Has the problem been fixed?" "What? No problem?"

"Are you joking?"

"What? You said you have verified this, this new Mersenne prime number is real, there is no problem?"

"But...how is this possible?"

"Can anyone really discover two new Mersenne primes in less than a day?"

"Kelvin, are you sure you're not kidding?"

"How did he do it?"

"Oh, my God, is he so lucky? Why does God always favor him? And not me?!"

Curtis Cooper felt a huge impact on his soul.

"Okay, Kelvin, I know what to do, I know how to do it, don't worry."

Curtis Cooper let out a deep breath in frustration.

Then his fingers began tapping on the keyboard.

Subsequently, a pinned official message appeared again on the GIMPS forum.

"Mo Lin from Xia State has discovered the latest Mersenne prime number M6********. This will be the 50st Mersenne prime number. The original M74207281, M77232917, and M82589933 are postponed in order. Congratulations to Mo Lin."

【what happened?Did the administrator make a mistake?Why did you resend the afternoon message?How did this administrator become?How could such a low-level mistake happen? 】

[No, please take a look upstairs. Except that this new Mersenne prime number and the Mersenne prime number discovered earlier today both start with 6, none of the following numbers are the same. So, this is really A new Mersenne prime. 】

【What?How can this be?How long has it been?Just discovered a new Mersenne prime number?You must know that the last Mersenne prime number was discovered four years ago. If the Mersenne prime number is so easy to discover, what have we done in the past four years?Feed the dog? 】

[If this is true, what I want to say is, maybe we have really been feeding dogs in these four years...]

[Didn’t any of you notice that these two new Mersenne primes were discovered by this mo lin?This person's luck is really good. 】

Curtis Cooper is no longer in the mood to pay attention to the discussions in the forum, and now he is eager to know who this mo lin is.

Without thinking, he sent another email to Lin Mo's mailbox.

Even Curtis Cooper thought of a way to locate and track mo lin's location through Prime95.

Prime95 is equivalent to an end of the link on GIMPS and is the tentacle of GIMPS. As the controller of the GIMPS main server, Curtis Cooper, the brain, can naturally find his own tentacle information.

However, that's all. All he can get is an IP address, and there is no more information besides that.

If you want to contact the other party through this IP address, you can't say it is a dream, it can only be said to be wishful thinking.

Now he just hates why the developers of Prime95 didn't develop an instant messaging function for Prime95 so that he can contact the other party directly.

Unable to do so, Curtis Cooper could only go back to the far point again and send an email to Lin Mo. This was the only way he could contact the other party.

However, what was waiting for him was still nothing and no news.

Because it was late at night in Xia Kingdom at this time.

Lin Mo had already fallen asleep at this time, and even when he was awake, he seldom paid attention to his mailbox. Except for publishing papers, he seldom logged in to his mailbox.

Curtis Cooper is destined to not receive a reply from Lin Mo in the short term.

(End of this chapter)