Nerd Alert

So Yahoo! News reports that researchers at the Central Missouri State University have identified the largest prime number. This number was found by programming 700 computers several years ago.

The number that the team found is 9.1 million digits long. It is a Mersenne prime known as M30402457 — that's 2 to the 30,402,457th power minus 1.
(Note-Mersenne primes are a special category expressed as 2 to the "p" power minus 1, in which "p" also is a prime number.- DUH)

A chemisty professor at CMSU is quoted as saying, "We're super excited, we've been looking for such a number for a long time" I mean really, you are SUPER excited?

If I were to be SUPER excited about something it would have to be something pretty major, such as:

1) Winning the lottery
2) Carrot-top's death
3) Beverly Hills 90210 on DVD
4) The completion of Rommie's condo
5) New writers on Days of Our Lives
6) Kirk Herbstriet's divorce
7) Winning the Amazing Race
8) Having a pet panda

Now those are things to be excited about, not a number. But I am wondering, wouldn't 2 to the 30,402,4579th power minus 1 be one digit longer? God I'm smart.