An amateur mathematician from San Jose, US, has discovered the largest prime number yet with over 41 million digits.. Prime numbers, the building blocks of mathematics, are divisible only by ...

Durant’s use of GPUs, starting in October 2023, quickly made him the most prolific prime pioneer using software from Woltman’s group. He used servers in 17 countries across 24 data centers and on two ...

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

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 ...

Called M136279841, the value belongs to a rare class of prime numbers called Mersenne primes and was found using a supercomputer system spread across 17 countries. Skip to main content.

Using a computer powered by an off-the-shelf Intel Core i5-6600 processor, a FedEx employee from Tennessee has discovered the largest prime number known to humanity. At 23,249,425 digits long, it ...