Landon Curt Noll
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Landon Curt Noll is the discoverer of two Mersenne primes, which he found while still enrolled in high school and concurrently at Cal State Hayward. He was also a member of the Amdahl Six team which discovered another record prime in 1989; this prime remains unusual as a record large prime as it was not a Mersenne prime. He is also the co-inventor (with John Horton Conway) of a system for naming arbitrarily large powers of 10. He also helped start the International Obfuscated C Code Contest, and is a co-inventor of the Fowler Noll Vo hash function.
Noll is an avid amateur astronomer, and was involved in politics as a Sunnyvale, California city council member and vice-mayor.
