An Amateur Just Found Largest Prime Number Ever
Popular Science · 18h
Man spent $2 million to find new largest prime number
Formed in 1999, GIMPS relies on an international network of volunteers who download specialized software that harnesses their computers’ unused programming capabilities to search for exceptionally large Mersenne prime numbers.
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One year, 41 million digits: How he found the largest known prime number
Luke Durant was folding his laundry right into his suitcase ahead of a trip back home to Alabama when he decided to check his computer and see if he had made history. He figured that, like every other time over the past year of fixing computer scripts,
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