| Landon Curt Noll | |
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| Born |
October 28, 1960 Walnut Creek, California, United States |
| Residence | United States  |
| Nationality | United States |
| Fields | Mathematics and Cryptography and Astronomy |
| Institutions | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Fremont Peak Observatory |
| Alma mater | California State University, East Bay and Linfield College |
| Known for | International
Obfuscated C Code Contest Fowler Noll Vo hash LavaRnd Prime number Vulcanoid asteroid Names of large numbers |
| Notable awards | USENIX Lifetime Achievement Award (contributor - 1993) |
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Held or co-held 8 World records relating to large prime numbers. Common username: chongo |
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Landon Curt Noll (born October 28, 1960)[1][2] is the co-discoverer of the 25th Mersenne prime and discoverer of the 26th[3], which he found while still enrolled in high school and concurrently at Cal State Hayward.[4] He was also a member of the Amdahl Six[5] team which discovered another record prime in 1989; this prime remains unusual as a record large prime as it was not a Mersenne prime.[6][7]
Noll was born in Walnut Creek, California, United States. At age 18, he became the youngest person to break the record for the largest known prime. He has held or co-held the record three times.[8] He is also the co-inventor (with John Horton Conway) of a system for naming arbitrarily large powers of 10.[9][10] He also helped start the International Obfuscated C Code Contest[11], and is a co-inventor of the Fowler Noll Vo hash function.[12]
Noll is an avid astronomer.[13][14] He coined the phrase meteor squall to describe a significant but not quite storm level meteor shower.[15] His most recent work includes measuring the Solar parallax during the 2004 Transit of Venus[16] as well as the search for Vulcanoid asteroids.[17]
Noll was involved in politics as a Sunnyvale, California city council member and vice-mayor.[18]
   | Landon Curt Noll's home page - Landon Curt Noll |
| | International Obfuscated C Code Contest - The International Obfuscated C Code Contest |
| | The English name of a number - The English name of a number |
| | How High can you count? - How high can you count? |
| | Sunnyvale City Council minutes for 1996 Nov 16 - Council Minutes 11-19-96 |
| | Generalized Fermat Prime Search - Generalized Fermat Primes Search |
| | Noll Primer Prover Bio - The Prime Pages: Landon Curt Noll |
| | The Prime Pages bio for the Amdahl Six - The Prime Pages: Proof-code: Z |
| | Yves Gallot's GFN Search Project - The Prime Pages: Yves Gallot's GFN Search Project |
| | Records by Electronic Computer - The Largest Known prime by Year: A Brief History |
| | Reference to "The search for Vulcanoid asteroids, Sky and Telescope, Jan 2006, Pages 87-89 - Landon Curt Noll's Astronomy pages |
| | American Astronomical Society for Landon Curt Noll - AAS — Public Directory |
| | Transit of Venus 8 June 2004 - Transit of Venus 8 June 2004 |
| | Leonid 2001 meteor shower / squall / storm at Fremont Peak - Leonid 2001 meteor shower / squall / storm at Fremont Peak |
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