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A former Nvidia employee discovered the world's largest known prime number and all it took was some free software and a few thousand datacenter GPUs
Earlier this month, Luke Durant, a former Nvidia employee from San Jose, California gained one of the rarer accomplishments in mathematics. With the help of just a few thousand graphics cards spread across 17 countries' datacenters and some free software,
Former NVIDIA engineer uses A100 GPU to discover world's largest prime number
A former NVIDIA engineer used an NVIDIA A100 GPU to discover the largest known prime number, which is an insane 41 million digits long.
Meet the largest known prime: it’s got 41 million digits and was calculated using GPUs
The bizarre world of prime numbers gets a new addition.
Former Nvidia engineer discovers 41-million-digit prime — largest prime number known to man was uncovered and verified with the help of GPUs
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Largest known prime number, spanning 41 million digits, discovered by amateur mathematician using free software
The newly confirmed prime number contains 41,024,320 decimal digits, according to the statement. Related: Pi calculated to 105 trillion digits, smashing world record. The new prim
Amateur sleuth finds largest known prime number with 41 million digits
The largest prime number is now 16 million digits longer than the previous record found in 2018, thanks to an amateur hunter and his large collection of high-power graphics cards
41-million-digit prime crunched by datacenter GPUs
Former Nvidia engineer's discovery shows graphics compute can kick some serious ass A former Nvidia engineer has found the largest known prime number – a whopping 41 million digits long – using an A100 GPU made by his previous workplace to do the grunt work.
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Former Nvidia engineer discovers largest known prime number, spanning 41 million digits
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