Luke Durant, a 36-year-old former Nvidia programmer, identified the world's largest known prime number after nearly a year of effort. His discovery, named M136279841, spans 41,024,320 digits and ...

The world's largest known prime number has been discovered, but we can't show it because it's so large it would take up 21 standard-sized novels to turn into text. Called M136279841, its shorthand ...

has broken a six-year drought in the search for the next prime oasis in a desert of boring ol' composite numbers. At an insane 41,024,320 decimal digits in length, writing the entire number would take ...

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It’s been nearly six years since math devotees discovered the last largest known prime number, but the bar has officially been raised by over 16 million digits. On October 21, the Great Internet ...

2. 3. 5. 7. 11. 13. 17. And so on. This is far from a comprehensive list of prime numbers—if we were to compile and write out an exhaustive list of all known prime numbers, this would be a truly ...

Luke Durant, a 36-year-old researcher who attended the Alabama School of Math and Science, has discovered the largest prime number known to mathematicians. The number, dubbed M136279841 ...

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And Durant's newly-discovered Mersenne prime, which according to GIMPS is over 16 million digits larger than the previous prime number record, took a hell of a lot of computing. While using ...

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