Former Nvidia programmer Luke Durant’s search led to the groundbreaking discovery of the world’s largest known prime number ...

Record-Breaking Prime Number, 41 Million Digits Long, Blows Mathematicians’ Minds ...

And Durant's newly-discovered Mersenne prime, which according to GIMPS is over 16 million digits larger than the previous prime number record, took a hell of a lot of computing. While using ...

Final confirmation came the next day when an Nvidia H100 in San Antonio ran a definitive Lucas-Lehmer primality test. This 41-million-digit number is the 52nd known "Mersenne prime," which is a ...

To test this prime number, GIMPS first performs a Fermat Primality Test, which can tell you whether the number is likely to be a prime. The new prime passed, but unfortunately, there are a small ...

A GIMPS survey has discovered a prime number with over 41 million digits, surpassing the previous record-holder by more than 16 million digits.