The program searches for a type of prime number known as a Mersenne prime, a prime number that can be described by subtracting the number 1 from a given number of 2's multiplied together.

The largest prime number ever has been discovered and it's ... GIMPS was a collaborative effort that pooled computing power online to find new prime numbers. The huge prime has 22,338,618 digits ...

A computer at the University of Central Missouri has calculated the world's largest prime number, coming in at 22,338,618 digits and surpassing the previous record by nearly 5 million digits.

At 23,249,425 digits, the number, known as M77232917, is now the largest known prime. In 2016, I wrote the following article about the previous largest known prime, which is now the second largest ...

Three is a Mersenne prime because it is a prime and is equal to 2 2 – 1. Other Mersenne primes include 7, 31, 127, and 8191. There are only fifty known in total, with the last sixteen discovered ...

Cooper made the discovery using the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search or GIMPS program that networks PCs all around the world to search for a special type of prime number. Cooper's discovery is ...

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 ...