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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.

Former Nvidia programmer Luke Durant used an unusual computer setup to discover a Mersenne prime that is — wait for it — 41 million digits long.

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After a six-year drought, we now have a new largest known prime number, thanks to an amateur mathematics sleuth who deployed an army of graphics processing units (GPUs) to crunch through the ...

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A typical CPU would take a week or two to test a number to see whether it is prime, Woltman said. It takes GPUs about a day or two. This technological leap is a key to why the consumer advocacy ...

the infinitude of integers—you’ll see that the theorem guarantees us an enormous space of uniquely identifiable instances. Take an arbitrary number and ask the question: What is its prime ...

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