A 41-million-digit prime number is the biggest ever found—but mathematicians' search for perfection will continue

Imagine a number made up of a vast string of ones: 1111111…111. Specifically, 136,279,841 ones in a row. If we stacked up ...
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Amateur mathematician finds the new largest prime number

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.
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One year, 41 million digits: How he found the largest known prime number

Former Nvidia programmer Luke Durant used an unusual computer setup to discover a mind-bogglingly big Mersenne prime. Luke Durant was folding his laundry right into his suitcase ahead of a trip back ...