Former Nvidia programmer Luke Durant spent nearly a year and significant personal funds to uncover the world’s largest known prime number—a massive 41-million-digit Mersenne prime. His ...

Known as M74207281, the number has 22,338,618 digits, which is five million more than the previous largest prime number ... To see exactly what a 22,338,618-digit number looks like, ...

The largest known prime number has been discovered by an amateur researcher and former Nvidia employee. The new number is 2 136,279,841 – 1, which beats the previous title holder (2 82,589,933 ...

But on 26 December 2017, Pace finally laid eyes on the object of his desire: the largest prime number then known, running to a whopping 23 million digits. It was so long that, printed out in ...

The beginning of the largest prime number ever discovered. Mersenne.org. You probably remember prime numbers from school. They’re numbers like 2, 3 and 17, which are only divisible by themselves ...

The process identified the prime number candidate 2^136,279,841 – 1 on October 11 via an Nvidia A100 GPU in Dublin. Final confirmation came the next day when an Nvidia H100 in San Antonio ran a ...