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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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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Largest known prime number, spanning 41 million digits, discovered by amateur mathematician using free software
The largest known prime number has been discovered, smashing the previous record by more than 16 million digits.
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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.
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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 ...
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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 clears ...