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A former Nvidia programmer, discovered the world's largest prime number, M136279841, consisting of over 41 million digits, after a year of research. Sunday, Jun 22, 2025. New Delhi o C.

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

Given a number to check, the latter test either confirms that it’s not prime or says that it’s probably prime. Probable primes have a very small chance of turning out to be nonprime.

The amateur mathematician found the new largest prime number dubbed “M136279841”, calculated by multiplying together 136,279,841 twos, and then subtracting 1.

Large prime numbers can play a role in cryptography algorithms used to protect data in applications such as online banking and private messaging services, Vishwam Sankaran reports for the Independent.