Talk:CMSU computing team discovers another record size prime

number of known Mersenne Primes is incorrect

This page says there are only 44 known Mersene Primes. There are in fact 47 known, as referenced on the page [[1]] —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.231.120.174 (talk • contribs) 19:20, 12 November 2011‎

Since this is an archived news article, the relevant question (noting, Wikipedia isn't a reliable source) is how many there were when the story was published. --Pi zero (talk) 19:30, 12 November 2011 (UTC)