The University of Central Missouri continues to hold an important role in the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search. The GIMPS project at UCM is a university-wide effort managed by Curtis Cooper and Steven Boone. Central's team (curtisc) is currently the No. 1 contributor to that project,[12] and is the only GIMPS team that has discovered four Mersenne primes: M43 230402457 - 1 with 9,152,052 digits,[13] M44 232582657 - 1 with 9,808,358 digits,[14] M48 257,885,161-1 with 17,425,170 digits,[15] and M49 274,207,281-1 with 22,338,618 digits.[16]