GIMPS has discovered five Mersenne primes so far. On November 14th 2001, Michael Cameron found
the current world record prime, 2
13466917-1. On June 1st 1999, Nayan
Hajratwala found the current world record prime, 2
6972593-1. On January
27th 1998, Roland Clarkson found the previous world record prime, 23021377-1. On August
24th 1997, Gordon Spence discovered the prime 22976221-1. In
November 1996, Joel Armengaud uncovered the prime 21398269-1. Could you
be next?