Record-Breaking Prime Number, 41 Million Digits Long, Blows Mathematicians’ Minds ...

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

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Former Nvidia programmer Luke Durant’s search led to the groundbreaking discovery of the world’s largest known prime number in nearly six years.

Luke Durant, a researcher and amateur mathematician, has identified the largest new prime number known to humankind. The newly discovered prime number is 2 to the power of 136,279,841, then minus one.

professor of pure mathematics at Imperial College London who was not involved in Durant’s efforts. The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search, or GIMPS, a community-based project, announced Durant ...

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