Record-Breaking Prime Number, 41 Million Digits Long, Blows Mathematicians’ Minds ...

A new largest known prime number was found last month by an amateur mathematician, continuing a millennia-long quest to ...

It's unusual for at least two reasons. First, it's a palindrome, so it reads the same backwards as forwards (not counting the ...

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

That certainly hasn’t stopped mathematicians —both professional and amateur—from trying to ferret out new ones. In fact, in 1996, computer scientist George Woltman started a project known as the Great ...

Luke Durant, a researcher and amateur mathematician, has identified the largest new prime number known to humankind. The newly discovered prime number is 2 to the power of 136,279,841, then minus one.

Former Nvidia programmer Luke Durant used an unusual computer setup to discover a Mersenne prime that is — wait for it — 41 million digits long.

Large prime numbers can play a role in cryptography algorithms ... Put simply, “it’s entertainment for math nerds,” George Woltman, co-founder of GIMPS, tells the Washington Post’s Ben ...

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 ...

The number, 2 136,279,841 – 1, is over 16 million digits larger than the previous one. Georgia math scores improve after pandemic Among prime numbers, there is a class called Mersenne primes of ...