Huge prime numbers ($100,000.00 award)

From: Bruno Lovatti (this)_at_terra.com.br)
Date: 06/23/04 

Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 10:24:29 -0300

I think you can find a prime number with 10,000,000+ digits and win the
$100,000.00 award.
You *just* need a better algorithm used by the Prime95 software.

http://www.eff.org/awards/award-prime-rules.html

bye!

Bruno

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