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Dr. '''Steven Boone''' is a professor at the [[Central Missouri State University]]. Boone and Dr. [[Curtis Cooper]] found the [[43 (number)|43]]rd [[Mersenne prime]] on their 700 [[Personal_computer|PC]] [[Computer cluster|cluster]] on [[December 15]], [[2005]]. The prime is 9,152,052 digits long and is the ninth [[Mersenne prime]] for the [[GIMPS]] project.
([http://www.mersenne.org/30402457.htm source])

He also [http://chem-phys.cmsu.edu/sboone/boone.html has his own website].

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