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Largest prime number ever found spans 41 million digits, sets new world record

Luke Durant, a 36 year-old researcher and former NVIDIA employee, used a free program, the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS), to identify the new prime through an advanced algorithm. The ...
FiveThirtyEight

We Have A New Prime Number, And It’s 23 Million Digits Long

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 ...
Popular Science

How a FedEx employee discovered the world’s largest prime number

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Jon Pace, a longtime FedEx employee, has loved math since high ...
CNN

Record-breaking prime number containing more than 41 million digits found by former Nvidia programmer

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A pair of mathematicians have discovered a prime number conspiracy

A pair of mathematicians appear to have discovered that there are unexpected patterns in the prime number sequence — previously thought to behave more randomly. A prime is a number only divisible by 1 ...