
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, January 12, 1994                   TAG: 9401120191
SECTION: NATL/INTL                    PAGE: A6   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
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IN THE NATION - BRIEFLY . . .

A new prime number has been discovered at Cray Research Inc., which manufacturers supercomputers, in Chippewa Falls, Wis. The number consists of 258,716 digits, and can be found by multiplying two by itself 859,433 times, then subtracting one.

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