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 – 1) by ...
Somewhere out there on the number line, huge prime numbers are lurking, waiting to be discovered. On Wednesday, a new one was. The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search, an organization devoted to ...
A former Nvidia programmer, discovered the world's largest prime number, M136279841, consisting of over 41 million digits, after a year of research. In a remarkable achievement, 36-year-old Luke ...