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.
Amateur Discovers The Largest Known Prime Number And It's Huge
Two pioneers in the field of machine learning have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences honored John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.”
An Amateur Just Found The Largest Prime Number Ever
The discovery of the largest prime number ever found has just been announced to the world. 2 136,279,841 -1, known as M136279841, was found by amateur “prime-hunter” Luke Durant on October 11, 2024.
Amateur Mathematician Discovers the Largest Known Prime Number, With More Than 41 Million Digits
Called M136279841, the value belongs to a rare class of prime numbers called Mersenne primes and was found using a supercomputer system spread across 17 countries
Meet the largest known prime: it’s got 41 million digits and was calculated using GPUs
As of October 2024, we have found the biggest prime number we know of — and it took almost 6 years to find it. To generate this number, you multiply 2 by itself 136,279,841 times (resulting in an enormous number that’s almost impossible to fathom) and then subtract 1.
Researcher who studied in Alabama discovers largest known prime number with 41 million digits
Luke Durant, a 36-year-old researcher who attended the Alabama School of Math and Science, has discovered the largest prime number known to mathematicians.
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
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.
Record For Largest Known Prime Number Broken By Amateur Mathematician Using Free Software
Prime numbers, as you likely learned in school, are numbers that can only be divided by one and themselves. There are an infinite number of them, with all numbers greater than 1 being either a prime number or a composite of primes. But having discovered a whole lot of them, new primes are now notoriously difficult to find.
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 Mersenne prime that is — wait for it — 41 million digits long.
Amateur mathematician discovers new prime number 41 million digits long
An amateur mathematician has managed to find the largest prime number yet. Finding prime numbers, which are only divisible by themselves and 1, gets harder as the digits get bigger. Mathematicians have used set formulas to test whether a large number is a prime number or not,
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 ...
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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 ...
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NVIDIA Computer Finds Largest Known Prime, Blows Past Record by 16 Million Digits
That’s right: A researcher and former NVIDIA employee has found 2 136,279,841-1, the largest known prime number, which ...