A number is only considered a Mersenne prime if it can be written in the form 2ᵖ-1. Unlike other large prime numbers used in some applications to protect internet security, Mersenne primes are ...

Specifically, 136,279,841 ones in a row. If we stacked up that many sheets of paper, the resulting tower would stretch into ...

Luke Durant, a 36-year-old former Nvidia programmer, identified the world's largest known prime number after nearly ... stems from his interest in large computing systems and physical laws ...